Sr. Manager - Software Engineering - Data Platform

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  

This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we’re developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin’s mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.

We are seeking a Sr. Manager of Software Engineering for Data Platform Automation (DPA) team. DPA owns and operates the event-driven Lakehouse infrastructure that powers AI agents, enterprise analytics, and operational intelligence across every program at Blue Origin. The team manages over 2,000 data ingestion pipelines and tables sourced from enterprise systems, ensuring data is fresh, reliable, and AI-ready. This role will drive the design, development and automation of many efforts including: 

• Metadata-Driven Ingestion — Blue Origin's next-generation ingestion platform providing "single-ingestion, multi-target" capability across the data platform. 

• Auto Generating Pipelines – Integrating MINT with our source system APIs and canonical models so data pipelines and tables are autogenerated from configs without an engineer having to do anything. 

• Databricks Lakehouse Platform Operations — Owning platform reliability, cost governance, and performance optimization across Blue Origin's unified data intelligence platform, targeting 99.99% uptime for all Tier-1 services. 

• Accelerated Data Availability — Driving data freshness improvements from source to target of 90%, supporting near real time data availability across our enterprise data. 

 

This position requires an engineering leader who can execute a scalable, cloud-native, automation-first data platform roadmap while partnering closely with data scientists, AI/ML teams, and engineering teams across the company. You will own operational excellence, ensuring stability, reliability, self-healing capabilities, and cost discipline while championing engineering best practices and growing a high-performing team. 

We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Join our team and help Blue Origin use data to build a road to space! 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead a high-caliber team of nine software and data engineers to develop cloud-native, automation-first data solutions at scale. 

• Lead the development of a next-gen Data Platform with strong emphasis on automation, scalability, and self-service capabilities. 

• Implement metadata-driven, event-driven data ingestion pipelines that seamlessly scale to process millions of events per day with anomaly detection and self-healing capabilities. 

• Enforce data security and governance with automated access control, policy enforcement and data lineage tracking.