Principal Network Engineer

About this role

Application close date: 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 looking for a Principal Network Engineer to help build and evolve an enterprise network that simply   works   secure by design, observable by default, resilient across manufacturing and launch operations, and scalable as Blue Origin grows.   This is a senior technical individual contributor role. You will provide technical leadership, architecture direction, design guidance, standards development, mentorship, and operational expertise across Blue Origin’s enterprise network. You will influence teams through technical credibility, sound engineering judgment, and practical solutions rather than direct people-management authority.  

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:  

• Shape and drive enterprise network architecture strategy, standards, and technical roadmaps aligned with Blue Origin’s technology and business goals.   

• Lead the design, review, implementation guidance, and operational readiness of enterprise network infrastructure across office, manufacturing, lab, launch, and other mission-critical facilities.   

• Ensure high availability, reliability, security, and supportability of network services across sites, platforms, and business-critical environments.   

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to network engineers by guiding designs, reviewing implementation approaches, developing standards, and raising engineering quality.   

• Drive automation, validation, and repeatable engineering practices to improve consistency, reliability, and operational scale.   

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, operations, security, cloud, facilities, and safety teams, to deliver integrated and secure network solutions.   

• Partner with vendors, service providers, and key stakeholders to evaluate solutions, resolve complex technical issues, and ensure strong technical and business outcomes.   

• Provide technical input into lifecycle planning, investment priorities, and network roadmaps that support a network that just works.   

• Stay current with networking technologies and industry trends to identify practical opportunities to improve Blue Origin’s enterprise network capabilities.   

• Support complex incident response, root-cause analysis, design reviews, and major network initiatives where senior technical expertise is required.   

Minimum Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, a related field, or equivalent experience.   

• 10+ years of enterprise networking experience in complex production environments.   

• 7+ years providing technical leadership, architecture direction, design ownership, standards development, or mentorship in enterprise network environments.   

• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, troubleshooting, validating, or operating enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, cloud, or network security infrastructure.   

• Experience with cloud networking, network virtualization, segmentation, or large-scale enterprise network architecture.   

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, strategic thinking, communication, and technical leadership skills.   

• Ability to translate business needs into scalable, secure, reliable, and supportable network architecture decisions.   

• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without relying on direct reporting authority.   

• Passion for Blue Origin’s mission and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.   

Preferred Qualifications  

• Hands-on experience implementing, operating, or maintaining Juniper network devices.   

• Experience designing, implementing, or operating SD-WAN architectures.   

• Experience designing, implementing, or operating EVPN/VXLAN architectures.   

• Experience with network segmentation, NAC, firewall policy, or zero-trust-aligned enterprise access models.   

• Experience applying software engineering practices to networking, such as source control, templating, peer review, automated validation, CI/CD pipelines, drift detection, or source-of-truth-driven automation.   

• Experience supporting high-availability network environments across manufacturing, industrial, lab, launch, aerospace, or other mission-critical facilities.   

• Experience creating reference architectures, standards, design patterns, or technical roadmaps for a growing enterprise network.   

• Ability to mentor senior engineers, facilitate technical design reviews, and drive alignment across engineering and operations teams.   

Travel Expectations  

Up to 20% travel may be required to support major site deployments, architecture reviews, vendor engagements, launch or manufacturing facility needs, and critical network initiatives.  

  Compensation Range for: WA applicants is $169,624.00 - $237,473.25 Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement Don’t meet all desired requirements? 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 an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualificati

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