HR Technology Senior Software Engineer

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re pioneering reusable, safe, and low‑cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. This role is part of Blue Origin’s Human Resources Technology Operations, delivering reliable, innovative, and scalable solutions that enhance the employee experience and enable HR to operate at the speed of our mission.

We are seeking a hands‑on Senior Software Engineer who builds and implements AI‑powered HR technology solutions while maintaining strategic awareness. The position emphasizes practical implementation—designing smart solutions across Workday, Cornerstone, LMS platforms or building custom applications, then immediately build, test, and deploy them. You’ll spend most of your time turning wrenches, with enough architectural thinking to ensure your solutions scale. The ideal candidate builds custom solutions that meet our customers where they’re at and is passionate about improving the day‑to‑day lives of employees at Blue Origin.

Passion for our mission and vision is required!

• 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 a similar LMS/HCM system.
• 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…