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Blue Origin

Builds rockets, engines and lunar spacecraft

Software Engineer 2

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWashington, USA$135k - $188.9kRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 3 years of professional software-development experience, including building, testing, and maintaining production software.
  • Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language such as Python, Java, Scala, C#, Go, or TypeScript.
  • Proficiency with large language models for code generation, debugging, and development assistance.
  • Experience with software-development fundamentals, including object-oriented or functional design, application programming interfaces, data structures, source control, automated testing, and debugging.
  • Working knowledge of SQL and relational or distributed data systems.
  • Ability to investigate ambiguous technical issues, decompose work into achievable steps, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners.
  • Demonstrated commitment to high-quality, secure, and dependable engineering practices.
  • Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as refugees or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support production software components for Data Platform Automation platform services, data pipelines, and automation workflows.
  • Implement well-structured, observable, and maintainable services and integrations using sound software-engineering practices, including code review, automated testing, version control, and documentation.
  • Partner with data engineers, analytics teams, platform owners, and internal customers to clarify requirements, translate operational needs into technical designs, and deliver iterative improvements.
  • Contribute to secure and reliable data-platform operations by monitoring services, troubleshooting incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and implementing durable corrective actions.
  • Improve developer and user experience through automation, reusable tooling, clear interfaces, and simplification of repetitive operational work.
  • Participate in design reviews and technical discussions; communicate tradeoffs, risks, progress, and dependencies clearly to teammates and stakeholders.
  • Follow Blue Origin engineering, security, data-governance, and quality standards.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience developing data-platform, analytics, workflow-orchestration, or cloud-based services.
  • Experience with Databricks, Apache Airflow, Dagster, dbt, Tableau, or comparable data-engineering and analytics platforms.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, and production observability.
  • Experience designing resilient integrations with application programming interfaces, event-driven systems, or enterprise data sources.
  • Familiarity with data quality, metadata, governance, access-control, or lineage practices.
  • Experience working in an Agile product or platform team and partnering directly with internal customers.
  • Strong written technical communication, including design notes, operational runbooks, and user-facing documentation.

About the Company

Blue Origin

Builds rockets, engines and lunar spacecraft

Blue Origin builds rockets, engines and spacecraft for commercial satellite operators and government space programs. Its New Glenn orbital rocket uses a reusable first stage, while Blue Moon landers are designed to transport cargo and astronauts to the lunar surface. The company designs and manufactures liquid-fueled propulsion systems, and its New Shepard vehicle is built for short suborbital trips carrying people and research payloads. Customers pay for launch services and engines, and government development contracts fund work on systems for exploration beyond Earth orbit. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, Blue Origin is headquartered in Kent, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$10.1B
Headquarters
Kent, WA
Founded
2000

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