Senior Software Engineer - Space Network Control Plane

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support program

Job summary

Blue Origin is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the PoP Control-Plane Network Services team in Seattle. You will help architect a distributed control plane that ensures reliable satellite connectivity and scales across terrestrial and orbital infrastructure.

The role emphasizes microservices, stateful distributed systems, and high-throughput data design, using Kubernetes-based deployments and modern observability tooling. A strong background in C++, Rust, or Go is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Expert-level proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go.
• Deep experience with distributed systems, consensus, and large-scale services.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement high-availability control plane services.
• Develop stateful distributed services across data centers and orbital nodes.
• Design high-throughput databases for telemetry and session data.

Skills

C++

Rust

Go

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Kafka

gRPC

Prometheus

Jaeger

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Blue Origin is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the PoP Control-Plane Network Services team in Seattle. You will help architect a distributed control plane that ensures reliable satellite connectivity and scales across terrestrial and orbital infrastructure.

The role emphasizes microservices, stateful distributed systems, and high-throughput data design, using Kubernetes-based deployments and modern observability tooling. A strong background in C++, Rust, or Go is required.