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Lead Software Engineer

northwoodspace· Engineering
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Torrance, CA$174k - $260kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead the Cloud team to own and grow the cloud services that orchestrate Northwood's global ground station network, including antenna scheduling, customer booking, service provisioning, and network orchestration.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Cloud team: set technical direction, mentor engineers, drive execution, and own delivery of Northwood's cloud services end to end
  • Design and develop Northwood's cloud-based booking and reservation system for global antenna network access
  • Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and portals for scheduling, booking, and automated network rerouting
  • Implement sophisticated workflows with strong guarantees for customers across worldwide sites
  • Own the orchestration layer coordinating antenna operations between cloud services and on-site ground systems
  • Design and operate the control plane, dataplane and telemetry delivery path across on-premises and cloud environments
  • Develop billing and metering systems to track resource usage and generate invoices
  • Drive the design and implementation of comprehensive monitoring to ensure platform uptime
  • Collaborate with Ground and Data teams, site operations, and network operations to build a resilient global network
  • Work with customers to define secure and scalable TT&C and payload data interfaces emphasizing simplicity and extensibility

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of professional software development experience
  • 3+ years building and scaling cloud-based services and APIs in production environments
  • Experience leading engineering teams or projects as a tech lead with mentoring and technical direction responsibilities
  • Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms
  • Proficiency in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)

Skills

Required:Software architecture and leadshipCloud services developmentDistributed scheduling / resource allocation
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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