Ground System Site Reliability Engineer II Verified today
About the role
Join the Blue Ring (BNS) program ground system team as a Site Reliability Engineer II. You will help build, integrate, deploy, and monitor software required for the Blue Ring Mission Operations Center used to fly on-orbit vehicles. Working in a fast-paced environment with engineers and mission operators, you will develop mission-critical software supporting activity planning, commanding, telemetry monitoring, communications, mission visualization, and flight/ground system integration.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, verify and deploy mission operations software systems, ensuring ground system success for Blue Origin space mission operations
- Develop, monitor and troubleshoot software infrastructure
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including flight vehicle systems, mission control infrastructure, and operations disciplines to define software requirements, architectures, and designs
- Develop rapid prototypes to prove out concepts and quantify technical risks
- Lead and participate in post-incident reviews, driving actionable improvements to system reliability
- Coordinate with mission control infrastructure and mission system engineers to plan, develop, and lead system verification and qualification to ensure software products meet system requirements and safety-critical standards
- Produce technical documentation for software architecture, design, verification plans, user manuals and training material
- Follow software development processes that meet Blue Origin and customer-required standards to ensure software safety and reliability
- Support frequent update cycles for pre-flight testing, mission validation exercises and operations training events
- Support mission control software operations during operator training, ground data system verification, validation, certification, spacecraft integration, and flight
- Integrate software components, create and run unit-level and system-level tests, validate using Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop simulators, and release certified code
Qualifications
- B.S. or higher degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of software development experience or as a Site Reliability Engineer
- Experience in software engineering over the full lifecycle including system design and analysis, requirement capture and development, software implementation and verification, system integration, qualification, and release
- Experience in software build automation, continuous integration, configuration management, verification, and deployment
- Demonstrated experience with modern CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform and Pulumi
- Experience architecting and managing cloud infrastructure with common cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with Kubernetes and common service meshes like Istio, Cilium, or Linkerd
- Proficient developing in Linux environments
- Proficient in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Rust, Java)
- Highly organized team player with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- 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
Desired qualifications
- Top Secret Security Clearance
- Experience developing complex applications in Python
- Experience with REST APIs, Kafka, GRPC
- Experience in web development and/or database development and interfaces
- Experience developing software systems for fault monitoring and alarm notification systems
- Experience with human command interfaces, command sequencers
- Experience with electronic, distributed team procedure authoring and execution
- Experience with spacecraft subsystems and associated subsystem software
Compensation
For Washington applicants: $134,961.00 to $188,945.40. Other site ranges may differ.