Senior Systems Software Engineer, Dataplane Networking

Blue Origin; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Software Engineer to join the Dataplane team and design the high-performance software powering the TeraWave PoP. You will work at the critical edge of the Linux kernel and user-space networking, delivering scalable dataplane components with microsecond-precision performance.

The role requires deep experience in systems programming, packet processing, and carrier-grade networking software, with leadership responsibilities and collaboration across platform, hardware, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in systems programming with shipping carrier-grade networking software.
• Expert-level proficiency in C or C++.
• Strong experience with Linux systems programming, including threading, memory management, and interrupt handling.
• Solid understanding of the OSI model, TCP/IP stack, and Ethernet switching fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance packet processing applications in C/C++ using DPDK and FD.io VPP to power the TeraWave PoP.
• Profile and optimize software to achieve line-rate performance at 100G/400G speeds with low latency.
• Implement and integrate IP routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS) and tunneling headers including SRv6, MPLS, and GRE.
• Develop drivers and software interfaces for hardware accelerators, SmartNICs, and FPGA-offload engines.
• Architect distributed dataplane systems for horizontal scaling across PoP clusters.
• Provide technical leadership, code reviews, and mentor junior engineers in low-level systems programming.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Linux systems programming

Carrier-grade networking

High-performance software

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

DPDK

VPP

eBPF/XDP

Kubernetes CNI

Mellanox/NVIDIA MLNX_OFED

Intel E810

Broadcom DNX

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Software Engineer to join the Dataplane team and design the high-performance software powering the TeraWave PoP. You will work at the critical edge of the Linux kernel and user-space networking, delivering scalable dataplane components with microsecond-precision performance.

The role requires deep experience in systems programming, packet processing, and carrier-grade networking software, with leadership responsibilities and collaboration across platform, hardware, and