Platform & API Engineer III - Project Sunrise - Orbital Data Centers

As a Platform & API Engineer, you will be responsible for scaling our customer-facing systems from a single-tenant service to a highly available, multi-tenant platform. This role is critical for hardening and scaling our Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to support a growing customer base. You will focus on the reliability, scalability, and security of the entire customer platform, ensuring that as we add new tenants, our systems remain robust, performant, and secure. This is a role for a software engineer who is passionate about building production-grade, distributed systems and understands what it takes to turn a successful prototype into a world-class service.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Evolve our customer-facing APIs to support multi-tenancy, ensuring strict data isolation and security between customers.

• Design and implement improvements to the backend services to ensure they can scale to handle increasing load from multiple tenants.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategy for the customer platform to ensure high availability.

• Build the tooling and automation required to onboard new customers smoothly and efficiently.

• Work with the security team to conduct security audits, threat modeling, and hardening of the public-facing API.

• Refactor and improve the existing codebase to support long-term maintainability and scalability.

• Contribute to the full lifecycle of the customer platform., Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Background Check

• Required for all positions: Blue’s Standard Background Check
• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation
• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of hazardous materials by ground in any vehicle on a public road while in commerce, may be subject to additional Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations including: Driver Qualification Files, Medical Certification (obtained before onboarding), Road Test, Hours of Service, Drug and Alcohol Testing, vehicle inspection requirements, CDL requirements (if applicable) and hazardous materials transportation/shipping training.
• Required for certain Job Profiles: Ability to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on building and operating backend systems.

• Demonstrated experience with designing and scaling APIs and distributed services.

• Strong programming skills in a language like Go, Python, Java, or C#.

• Experience with building and operating services on a cloud platform (e.g., AWS, GCP).

• Solid understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with building and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

• Deep knowledge of API security, authentication, and authorization (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OIDC).

• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, and secure development practices such as NIST SSDF (SP 800-218).

• A passion for building robust, scalable, and secure production systems.

• Travel may be required up to 10% of the time.

• Relocation assistance available.

Base Pay Range for: VA applicants is $164,652.00 - $230,512.80 CO applicants is $150,931.00 - $211,303.05 WA applicants is $164,652.00 - $230,512.80, * Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.

• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company’s intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company’s results, or other factors at the company’s sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

This role is part of Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE), supporting Blue Origin’s mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. The team fosters innovation and drives engineering workflows of the future, shared solutions and standards, simplicity and lower costs, and manufacturable design.

Join Blue Origin as we build infrastructure in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re developing Project Sunrise, a constellation of orbital data centers designed to transform how compute infrastructure is deployed and leveraged at an unprecedented scale.