Northwood
Software Engineer - Backend (mid-late career)
Northwood - Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079
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Software Engineer - Backend (mid-late career)
About Northwood
Northwood is on a mission to transform connectivity between earth and space and bring the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed globally with real impact, we want you at Northwood. OverviewApplication
About Northwood
Northwood is on a mission to transform connectivity between earth and space and bring the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed globally with real impact, we want you at Northwood.
Role
Northwood Space is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Distributed Systems team in our Torrance office. As a Distributed Systems Software Engineer, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and optimizing data and control plane functionalities within our global ground station network infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and customers to develop innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient, simple, and available systems. Your expertise in distributed and scalable systems will be essential in achieving our reliability, scalability, and performance goals.
Responsibilities
Ownership of the Distributed Systems responsible for sequencing, provisioning, and configuring all of Northwood’s core infrastructure and network Design and implement Northwood's control and data planes, ensuring seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments, emphasizing low latency and high throughput data distribution Work with customers on defining secure and scalable interfaces for Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) and payload data transfer, putting simplicity and extensibility first Develop, test, deploy, and maintain applications essential to the ground service, including APIs, services for spacecraft communication, and data processing pipelines capable of managing gigabytes of data per second Support the design and implementation of a comprehensive monitoring solution to ensure the continuous uptime of Northwood's hardware and software systems Work closely with software, network, and FPGA engineers to design Northwood's hybrid network and software deployments, optimizing performance and scalability
Basic Qualifications
6+ years of professional software development experience 3+ years of industry experience in architecting and scaling distributed systems in production and/or large-scale software services in the cloud
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency in one or more of the following: Rust, Golang,, C/C++ Open to other languages that are suitable for distributed systems and/or high-performance computing Experience building & operating highly reliable distributed systems in a hybrid cloud/on-prem environment Experience in Network programming and understanding of the IP protocols Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
Additional Information
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space 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.
Compensation Range: $144K - $199K Seniority level
Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type
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About Northwood
Northwood is on a mission to transform connectivity between earth and space and bring the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed globally with real impact, we want you at Northwood. OverviewApplication
About Northwood
Northwood is on a mission to transform connectivity between earth and space and bring the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed globally with real impact, we want you at Northwood.
Role
Northwood Space is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Distributed Systems team in our Torrance office. As a Distributed Systems Software Engineer, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and optimizing data and control plane functionalities within our global ground station network infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and customers to develop innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient, simple, and available systems. Your expertise in distributed and scalable systems will be essential in achieving our reliability, scalability, and performance goals.
Responsibilities
Ownership of the Distributed Systems responsible for sequencing, provisioning, and configuring all of Northwood’s core infrastructure and network Design and implement Northwood's control and data planes, ensuring seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments, emphasizing low latency and high throughput data distribution Work with customers on defining secure and scalable interfaces for Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) and payload data transfer, putting simplicity and extensibility first Develop, test, deploy, and maintain applications essential to the ground service, including APIs, services for spacecraft communication, and data processing pipelines capable of managing gigabytes of data per second Support the design and implementation of a comprehensive monitoring solution to ensure the continuous uptime of Northwood's hardware and software systems Work closely with software, network, and FPGA engineers to design Northwood's hybrid network and software deployments, optimizing performance and scalability
Basic Qualifications
6+ years of professional software development experience 3+ years of industry experience in architecting and scaling distributed systems in production and/or large-scale software services in the cloud
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency in one or more of the following: Rust, Golang,, C/C++ Open to other languages that are suitable for distributed systems and/or high-performance computing Experience building & operating highly reliable distributed systems in a hybrid cloud/on-prem environment Experience in Network programming and understanding of the IP protocols Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
Additional Information
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space 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.
Compensation Range: $144K - $199K Seniority level
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Los Angeles, CA . Don't see a job that matches your experience? Submit your resume here!
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