Senior Software Engineer - Space Network Control Plane

JobCubby; Cupertino, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 249,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support program

Job summary

Blue Origin in the United States seeks a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Services, the software layer that manages a dynamic mesh of satellite customer terminals in real time. You will be a founding member of the PoP infrastructure team, ensuring highly available connections across endpoints as you help build the distributed brain of a space-based ISP.

The role emphasizes microservices, containerized environments, observability, and scalable data

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Expert-level proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go
• Deep experience with distributed systems, consensus algorithms, and messaging/broker ecosystems

Responsibilities

• Architect the Control Plane: design highly available, low-latency services
• Build and maintain stateful distributed services across data centers and orbital nodes
• Develop and optimize database schemas (SQL/NoSQL/Time-Series) for telemetry data

Skills

C++

Rust

Go

Distributed systems

Consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos)

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Prometheus

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

gRPC

Job description

Blue Origin in the United States seeks a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Services, the software layer that manages a dynamic mesh of satellite customer terminals in real time. You will be a founding member of the PoP infrastructure team, ensuring highly available connections across endpoints as you help build the distributed brain of a space-based ISP.

The role emphasizes microservices, containerized environments, observability, and scalable data