Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Torrance, CA, Washington D.C.$142k - $224kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Backend-focused Staff Engineer role to lead the development of Northwood Space’s cloud-based platform for global antenna scheduling, customer booking, and service provisioning, with emphasis on scalable systems, cloud architecture, and distributed services.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop Northwood's cloud-based scheduling and orchestration system for global antenna network access
- Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and interfaces for everything from scheduling to real time communications and data routing
- Design and implement Northwood's control and data planes, ensuring seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments
- Develop billing and metering systems that accurately track resource usage and generate invoices
- Create orchestration systems to coordinate antenna operations across our global network
- Collaborate with Customers, network operations, and the larger software team to build a truly resilient global network
- 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
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years building and scaling cloud-based services and APIs in production environments
- Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms
- Proficiency in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
Skills
Required:Experience with distributed scheduling systemsCloud infrastructure
Benefits
- equity
- comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- flexible spending accounts
- flexible time off
- 10 or more paid holidays per year
- retirement savings plans
- opportunities for professional development
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About northwoodspace
The world runs on space. We’re building the infrastructure to keep it connected.
The world runs on space. We’re building the technology to keep it connected.
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