Senior Software Engineer

Overview

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This role is part of Blue Origin corporate functions within HR Technology Operations, building and maintaining the digital systems that support Blue Origin's people and workforce. The team focuses on delivering reliable, innovative, and scalable technology solutions that enhance the employee experience and enable HR to operate at the speed of the mission. The Senior Software Engineer will build and implement AI-powered HR technology solutions across Workday, Cornerstone, and LMS platforms or custom solutions, with both hands-on coding and architectural thinking to ensure scalable outcomes.

Responsibilities and work focus are centered on designing practical, end-to-end HR technology solutions that improve employee self-service, automate workflows, and ensure high availability and reliability of HR systems.

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• 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, Graph
  
  QL, 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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/Type Script. 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.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, HR Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience building and configuring Workday integrations (Workday Studio, EIBs, or Workday Extend).
• Deep familiarity with Cornerstone OnDemand administration, configuration, and custom development including learning management and talent management modules.
• Experience integrating AI/ML models into enterprise HR applications (e.g., intelligent recommendations, chatbots, predictive analytics for talent).
• Proficiency in deployment and orchestration tools such as Git and Docker.
• Experience with Databricks for data engineering, analytics, or ML workflows across HR data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of the Atlassian product suite (Jira, Confluence) and Git Lab for project management, documentation, and…