Senior Telemetry Data Platform DevSecOps Engineer

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Telemetry Data Infrastructure DevOps Software Engineer III to design, build, and operate secure, scalable data pipelines for rocket engine telemetry. You will own ingestion, streaming, indexing, and observability and drive DevSecOps practices across the data platform.

You will mentor junior engineers, lead reviews, collaborate with engine test and IT/security teams, and develop AI/ML-based checks to ensure data quality and health. The role requires U.S.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree or higher in a related field such as computer science, engineering, or data science.
• 5+ years hands-on experience in software or data systems.
• Experience as a DevOps/DevSecOps engineer or data engineer with production systems ownership.
• Experience designing and scaling data pipelines for high-volume streaming and batch data.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Experience with TypeScript or Python and at least one additional language (e.g., Java, Scala, Go, C++).
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL including NoSQL, with experience in schema and data model design.
• Experience building dashboards and data visualizations (e.g., Grafana, Kibana).
• Experience with cloud services, preferably AWS (e.g., S3, MSK, OpenSearch, EC2, IAM, Lambda).
• Working knowledge of data security best practices and secure software delivery.
• Experience leading technical reviews and providing technical guidance or mentorship to other engineers.
• Ability to determine appropriate methods and approaches on new problems with limited direction.
• Ability to present technical concepts and recommendations to peers, customers, and leadership.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy secure, high-throughput data pipelines for engine telemetry streams.
• Lead DevSecOps practices across the data platform including CI/CD, IaC, testing, and monitoring.
• Design streaming architectures using Kafka, Kinesis, or Pulsar for real-time telemetry ingestion.
• Implement search, indexing, and observability with Elastic Stack and time-series dashboards (Grafana, Kibana).
• Develop AI/ML/LLM-based anomaly detection and health monitoring pipelines.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, and drive cross-team collaboration.
• Define performance, capacity, and cost optimization for the data platform.
• Lead root cause analysis on complex production pipeline failures and data quality non-conformances and drive corrective and preventive actions to closure.
• Define and execute performance, capacity, and cost optimization efforts across the data platform.
• Author and approve technical artifacts including interface specifications, design documentation, test procedures, runbooks, and configuration standards.
• Identify, quantify, and communicate technical, cost, and schedule risks to leadership, and propose mitigation approaches.
• Drive tool development and process improvements that reduce error rates and improve platform efficiency across the team.
• Define and implement security and compliance controls in accordance with Blue Origin standards and export control (ITAR/EAR) requirements.
• Lead technical reviews and provide peer review and technical guidance to Level I and Level II engineers, mentoring on tooling, standards, and best practices.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across engine test, design, analysis, and IT/security to deliver telemetry data solutions, and represent the data platform in cross-program forums.

Skills

DevSecOps

Data engineering

Streaming pipelines

CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes

Terraform/Ansible/Pulumi

TypeScript/Python

Linux

SQL/NoSQL

Grafana/Kibana

AWS

Observability

SQL

NoSQL

AWS

DevSecOps

Data pipelines

Time-series

Education

B.S. in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data science, information systems, mathematics, physics, aerospace, or related field

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Pulsar

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Logstash

Kibana

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Blue Origin LLC seeks a Telemetry Data Infrastructure DevOps Software Engineer III to design, build, and operate secure, scalable data pipelines for rocket engine telemetry. You will own ingestion, streaming, indexing, and observability and drive DevSecOps practices across the data platform.

You will mentor junior engineers, lead reviews, collaborate with engine test and IT/security teams, and develop AI/ML-based checks to ensure data quality and health. The role requires U.S.