Senior SDN Routing & Dynamic Network Engineer

Blue Origin; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 249,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Blue Origin's TeraWave Network Software team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design and build routing and control-plane software for a global satellite network. You will model current and future connectivity, compute traffic-engineered paths, and program forwarding behavior across satellites, gateways, and terrestrial networks.

This role is based in Seattle, WA, or Cupertino, CA. Responsibilities include designing and operating routing control-plane software, developing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related STEM field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with networking, distributed systems, infrastructure, or embedded systems.
• Experience with IP routing, packet forwarding, convergence, failure recovery, or traffic engineering.
• Experience programming in C++, Rust, Go, Java, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and operate routing control-plane software for satellite, gateway, and terrestrial networks.
• Develop topology models for current and predicted connectivity across satellites, optical links, gateways, and Points of Presence.
• Implement path-computation algorithms considering latency, capacity, availability, congestion, policy, and resource constraints.
• Translate network intent and computed paths into forwarding state on network elements.
• Develop routing behavior for topology transitions, link changes, node movement, degraded links, and failures.
• Integrate telemetry, topology, link-state, and network-condition data into route computation and control systems.
• Develop simulation, emulation, and test capabilities for routing correctness, convergence, scalability, resiliency, and performance.
• Diagnose routing and forwarding issues across the control plane, data plane, and physical topology.

Skills

Networking

Distributed systems

C++

Rust

Go

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant STEM field

Job description

Blue Origin's TeraWave Network Software team is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to design and build routing and control-plane software for a global satellite network. You will model current and future connectivity, compute traffic-engineered paths, and program forwarding behavior across satellites, gateways, and terrestrial networks.

This role is based in Seattle, WA, or Cupertino, CA. Responsibilities include designing and operating routing control-plane software, developing