Sr. Manager, Software Development

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 commitment and detailed attention towards 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.

As Senior Manager, Software Development within the New Glenn Engineering Data Systems & Architecture team, you support, develop, and guide a highly productive and trusted software development team. Your team delivers interrelated tools that manage foundational engineering data for spaceflight systems. The team's customers are a demanding and deeply technical group of engineers across design, operations and maintenance. As a leader it is your responsibility to provide the people, culture, processes and guidance that result in rapidly delivering the right tools within a strategic path that is robust and scalable. You will be responsible for the team’s successful impact on all aspects their work!

We are building tools for the engineers designing, operating and maintaining our New Glenn rocket. We bring complex data together and make it meaningful information for decisions. This role requires working closely with leadership throughout New Glenn and Blue Origin. Your team will be building effective software solutions and tools that support engineering and operational teams from vehicle design through tactical maintenance and repair operations. You will take responsibility for ensuring that the team is capable and consistent in providing performant and robust solutions.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team in developing and maintaining a culture of excellence and inclusion consistent with Blue Origin's leadership principles.
• Retain, develop, and add team members who are able to earn trust and deliver results for our customers.
• Carry a clear vision, consistently keeping the team aligned with global needs of the business unit.
• Contribute and collaborate with the entire team in developing technical strategy and tactical results.
• Assist strategists and leaders at all levels in iteratively determining requirements and defining business process such that tools built by the team will enable robust flow of engineering parameters and data from creation to consumption.
• Actively identify and manage risks to the team's performance or success of team deliverables.
• Develop relationships with customers across New Glenn and Blue Origin and ensure that successes and end results are recognized.
• Provide reliable and effective methods for scoping, estimating, prioritizing and communicating progress to customers for all development work within the team.
• Enable solutions that are timely yet scalable.
• Ensure the right level of software development standards and guidance are in place and aligned with the criticality of the tools developed / data managed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in technical field or equivalent demonstrated capabilities.
• 10+ years working with data engineering, cloud architecture, systems integration or a related domain.
• 5+ years direct software development experience.
• Technical experience with frontend development, APIs, distributed systems, databases, and developer tools.
• Hands-on approach to closing gaps that strikes a balance between technical debt reduction and delivering rapidly on behalf of our customers.
• Proven experience crafting data platforms and data tools.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to audiences at all levels of leadership and technical depth.
• Coding proficiency in at least one modern web services programming language (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, etc.) and SQL.
• 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:

• Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or similar analytical field.
• 3+ years direct product management experience.
• Experience with provisioning, forecasting usage, and managing to a budget.
• Experience with aerospace systems and/or knowledge of systems engineering.

Don’t meet every single requirement? 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 qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Compensation range for on-site WA applicants is $187,266-$274,656.

Compensation range for on-site CA applicants is $187,266-$274,656. Other site ranges may differ.

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.

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 workforce. 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.

Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

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Benefits

Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave (must be employed at time of birth or adoption), short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program available after 1 year of service.

Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays for all regular employees (including part-time), fixed-term, and interns.

Discretionary bonus: Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses in addition to base pay. Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.