Senior Software Engineer, Space Network Control Plane

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Services that manage a dynamic mesh of satellite customer terminals in real time. You will be a founding member of the next-gen PoP infrastructure team, creating the distributed brain of a space-based ISP.

You will design high-availability control plane services, work on stateful distributed systems across data centers and orbital nodes, and optimize data schemas for billions of telemetry

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Architect the Control Plane: design highly available, low-latency microservices for subscriber provisioning and session management.
• Build and maintain stateful distributed services across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes.
• Design and optimize databases (SQL/NoSQL/Time-Series) to track billions of telemetry points.

Skills

C++

Rust

Go

Distributed Systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Kafka

gRPC

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Services that manage a dynamic mesh of satellite customer terminals in real time. You will be a founding member of the next-gen PoP infrastructure team, creating the distributed brain of a space-based ISP.

You will design high-availability control plane services, work on stateful distributed systems across data centers and orbital nodes, and optimize data schemas for billions of telemetry