Senior Systems Software Engineer - High-Performance Dataplane

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Software Engineer to join the Dataplane team and design high-performance, carrier-grade networking software powering the TeraWave PoP. You will build the network edge software that enables global connectivity, operating at the intersection of the Linux kernel and user-space networking.

The ideal candidate has strong C/C++ systems programming skills, Linux networking experience, and familiarity with DPDK/VPP, eBPF, and data-plane technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in systems programming with a track record of 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.

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 while minimizing latency and jitter
• Implement and integrate IP routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS) and tunneling encapsulation headers including SRv6, MPLS, and GRE
• Develop drivers and software interfaces for hardware accelerators, SmartNICs, and FPGA-offload engines supporting the TeraWave dataplane
• Architect distributed dataplane systems capable of scaling horizontally across TeraWave PoP clusters
• Provide technical leadership, conduct in-depth code reviews, and mentor junior engineers on low-level systems programming
• Collaborate with platform, hardware, and network engineering teams to define dataplane software requirements and interfaces
• Drive continuous performance benchmarking and optimization of packet forwarding pipelines
• Contribute to software architecture decisions and technology selection for the TeraWave network edge infrastructure

Skills

C/C++

Systems programming

Linux networking

Carrier-grade networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

DPDK

VPP

eBPF

XDP

Job description

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Software Engineer to join the Dataplane team and design high-performance, carrier-grade networking software powering the TeraWave PoP. You will build the network edge software that enables global connectivity, operating at the intersection of the Linux kernel and user-space networking.

The ideal candidate has strong C/C++ systems programming skills, Linux networking experience, and familiarity with DPDK/VPP, eBPF, and data-plane technologies.