BLUE ORIGIN

Senior Software Engineer, HR Technology

BLUE ORIGIN

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Greater Seattle AreaAlabamaFloridaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $197,529 - $276,539 per year

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About the role

  • Design, develop, and deploy digital employee experiences across HR technology platforms including Cornerstone, LMS tools, and Workday, ensuring seamless end-to-end user journeys
  • Architect and build custom integrations between HR enterprise systems (Workday, Cornerstone, LMS) and internal/external applications using RESTful APIs, SOAP, GraphQL, and message queues
  • Leverage AI technologies and tools (e.g., LLMs, recommendation engines, intelligent automation) to enhance HR software capabilities, improve employee self-service, and drive innovation in people technology
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including HR business partners, data analysts, and ET stakeholders to translate people-operations requirements into actionable software solutions
  • Identify feature gaps between enterprise HR systems and develop remediation plans, building custom solutions that meet end users where they are
  • Contribute to the design, implementation, and deployment of enterprise-scale HR systems and services that are highly available, scalable, and maintainable
  • Produce quality technical documentation for defining integrations between enterprise-level HR applications
  • Adopt software DevOps technologies and CI/CD best practices to solve software automation and deployment challenges
  • Design and implement automations that reduce manual HR operational toil, streamline workflows, and improve system reliability across the HR technology stack
  • Apply SRE principles — including SLOs, error budgets, and incident management — and collaborate with SRE teams to ensure HR systems meet reliability and availability standards
  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and cross-functional team members who are passionate about improving the employee experience at Blue Origin, fostering growth across both technical and non-technical disciplines
  • Stay current with emerging HR technology trends, AI/ML advancements, and digital experience methodologies, proposing improvements and innovations to optimize system performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
  • 7+ years of proven experience writing software and deploying it to production environments
  • Hands-on experience with at least one HR technology platform such as Workday, Cornerstone OnDemand, or similar LMS/HCM systems
  • Strong proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Experience developing APIs and building applications on them in a production environment
  • Experience with AWS cloud services, including containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes (K8s) and Amazon EKS
  • Demonstrated understanding of deploying web interfaces using React, Angular, or similar frameworks
  • Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog for application performance management, logging, and infrastructure monitoring
  • Experience solving complex problems by leveraging AI tools and integrating AI-powered solutions into software development workflows
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex systems to a varying user base.
Benefits
  • 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%
  • Education Support Program
  • Up to four (4) weeks paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours
  • Up to 14 company-paid holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptRESTful APIsSOAPGraphQLAWSKubernetesReact
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationmentorshipproblem-solvingtechnical guidance