Senior SDN Routing Engineer for Space Networks

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 249,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the TeraWave Network Software team. You will design and build routing and control-plane software for a global satellite network with dynamic topology, developing models, path computations, and forwarding state across satellites, gateways, and terrestrial links.

You will work to ensure scalability, resiliency, and performance, translating network intent into reliable control systems while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related STEM field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience in technical domains.
• Experience developing software for networking, distributed systems, infrastructure, or embedded systems.
• Experience with IP routing, packet forwarding, convergence, failure recovery, or traffic engineering.
• Experience programming production software 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 that account for 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

5+ years software development

Networking

Distributed systems

C++, Python, Go, Java

Software for embedded/infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/CE or related STEM

Job description

Blue Origin in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the TeraWave Network Software team. You will design and build routing and control-plane software for a global satellite network with dynamic topology, developing models, path computations, and forwarding state across satellites, gateways, and terrestrial links.

You will work to ensure scalability, resiliency, and performance, translating network intent into reliable control systems while collaborating with