Senior Software Engineer - TeraWave PoP Control-Plane Network Servicesices

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

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based communications with TeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This multi-orbit constellation will consist of optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), providing enterprise-grade connectivity for critical operations worldwide.

We are looking for 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.

The Role

You will be a founding member of our next-generation PoP infrastructure team working on the Control Plane that orchestrates end to end connectivity across the entire network. Your work will ensure that customers maintain a highly available satellite connection between all their different end points as you build the "distributed brain" of a space-based ISP.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years
• Languages: Expert-level proficiency in C++ , Rust , or Go .
• Distributed Systems: Deep experience with consensus algorithms ( Raft, Paxos ), distributed caching, and message brokers (Kafka, gRPC).

Preferred Skills (Microservices & Distributed Systems Focus)

• Cloud-Native Architecture: Extensive experience designing and deploying microservices architectures within containerized environments using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS or bare-metal).
• Service Mesh & Discovery: Proven track record with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio