Senior Software Engineer – PoP Control-Plane (TeraWave)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid parental leave

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock options

Paid time off

Company holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control‑Plane Network Services, the software layer that manages, routes, and controls a dynamic mesh network of satellite customer terminals in real‑time.

You will design highly available control plane services, work with distributed systems across data centers and orbital nodes, and optimize time-series data storage for telemetry points. The role emphasizes microservices, Kubernetes, and observability at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or related fields.
• Expert-level proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Control Plane: Design and implement highly available, low-latency control plane services using microservices patterns to handle subscriber provisioning and session management.
• Distributed Systems at Scale: Build and maintain stateful distributed services that operate across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes.
• High-Throughput Database Design: Develop and optimize database schemas (SQL, NoSQL, and Time-Series) to track billions of telemetry points.

Skills

C++

Rust

Go

Distributed systems

Raft/Paxos

Event-driven design

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Kafka

gRPC

Prometheus

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control‑Plane Network Services, the software layer that manages, routes, and controls a dynamic mesh network of satellite customer terminals in real‑time.

You will design highly available control plane services, work with distributed systems across data centers and orbital nodes, and optimize time-series data storage for telemetry points. The role emphasizes microservices, Kubernetes, and observability at scale.