Your space-enabled career begins here

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedication and detailed attention toward safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

Supporting the future of human spaceflight is an ambitious but exciting task, fully dependent on a robust data model. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for data management systems used daily by thousands of professionals building a road to space.

You will be a member of the Enterprise Data Management & Analytics team, comprised of top. tier data professionals ranging across the entire data management lifecycle.

What makes our Data Platform Automation team successful?

• Comprehending deeply our customers’ problems and working to address them
• Focusing strongly on automation, observability, data democratization, and self-service analytics tools
• Bridging optimally between software teams and business analytics teams
• Being fanatical about data quality and trust
• We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to impact safe human spaceflight positively. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities include:

• Performing the full development lifecycle for automating batch and stream data processing systems, ensuring high performance, resiliency, and observability
• Monitoring, maintaining, and improving Blue Origin’s data pipelines and associated infrastructure, facilitating the greatest possible utilization and trust of our data assets
• Working with upstream system administrators and downstream business customers to onboard data, ensuring high quality, discoverability, ease of use
• Establishing ground rules, providing code reviews, and upholding the standards for code quality in our stack
• Creating tools and workflows that empower rapid iteration and repeatable results, and crafting support for this toolset with our data community
• Participating in a shared on-call rotation monitoring the health of the team’s systems
• Crafting documentation covering usage, maintenance, and troubleshooting of our data platform components

Qualifications:

• Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of direct experience developing data pipelines in a production context
• Understanding and experience with modern software practices such as version control systems, CI/CD workflows, test-driven development
• Strong SQL skills as applied to analytics context
• Experience with AWS Services, especially Event Bridge, RDS, EMR, Lambda
• Proficient with Python
• Experience ingesting data from a wide variety of sources including NoSQL databases, REST endpoints, etc.
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code and relevant technologies
• Knowledge and direct experience with Docker and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes
• Experience with distributed data management systems such as Palantir Foundry and Databricks
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

Desired:

• Experience with running & scaling orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster in production
• Experience with near-real-time data streaming applications
• Experience with big data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark
• Knowledge and experience with Linux
• Familiar with the manufacturing, PLM tools, and supply chain operations
• Experience with hierarchical data structures and recursive processing techniques
• Experience with metadata-driven automation and data fabrics
• History in Database Administration – emphasis on OLAP systems
• Prior experience delivering results on a Data Lake project
• Knowledge of implementing Data Quality monitoring and alerting systems

Inclusivity Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

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.

Benefits

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.

Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.

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