Senior Software Engineer (Space Communications)

About Northwood :

Northwood is on a mission to transform connectivity between Earth and space, bringing the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you're passionate about building quickly and seeing your work deployed globally with real impact, we want you at Northwood.

Role :

As a Software Engineer at Northwood, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and optimizing the global service that delivers connectivity to our customers. You will have ownership over key areas - ranging from control of our antenna systems to the customer APIs that enable booking time on our network. An ideal candidate is someone who likes to work across areas of responsibility and can dive deep into high priority challenges.

Northwood is a full-stack company, with software development spanning everything from embedded systems and high speed networking to distributed web services. We seek versatile candidates who want to contribute across multiple areas while having a solid foundation in a few core areas of focus . Key areas of focus include-but are not limited to-the following (new team members will have the opportunity to work across these areas) :

• Cloud orchestration & distributed systems design

Lead the end-to-end architecture of a global, distributed control plane that schedules hundreds of satellite passes per hour across mixed AWS / on-prem nodes

Build and own customer-facing and internal control-plane APIs - craft, version, and operate the endpoints that let users search, reserve, update, and cancel satellite passes at multi-thousand-request scale

Design and implement control systems for our ground station hardware, you will write software that interacts with everything from embedded systems to RF modems

Architect and optimize data pipelines for efficient movement of data between ground stations and various end environments

Create comprehensive monitoring and alerting solutions for software and infrastructure

Transform our telemetry data into actionable insights, enabling predictive diagnostics to address issues before they arise; keep our customers informed about relevant operations in real time

A global network requires global deployments, and Northwood is committed to building a secure, reliable, and stable pipeline. This infrastructure empowers our developers to deploy changes continuously-without the risk of disrupting the system or relying on 'testing in prod.'

Develop software for production line bring-up and testing

Create simulations that model satellite and network design

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

While we don't expect you to have every skill listed below, we do expect you to take ownership of one or more areas and drive decisions and implementations where your strengths lie.

Proficiency in one or more of the following :

Rust, Golang, C / C++

Domain specific skills :

Experience designing and implementing distributed systems

Experience with hardware control systems

Proficiency in architecting data pipelines for high-throughput environments

Experience in building RESTful APIs

JavaScript / TypeScript

Experience with monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)

Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)

Experience with time-series databases (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)

Experience designing / implementing simulations for physical models (think satellite orbits) or network movement

Experience designing / implementing orchestration engines for distributed nodes (think robotics, long running jobs, data pipelines, etc...)

Experience with automated testing frameworks

Additional Information

To conform to the U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be :

Equal Opportunity Employer

Northwood is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with Northwood is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.