Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

The role

You will lead the development of a cloud-based platform that manages global antenna scheduling, customer booking, and service provisioning. You will design and implement scalable systems for resource allocation, billing, and customer-facing APIs.

What you will do

• 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 scheduling, real time communications and data routing
• Design and implement Northwood's control and data planes
• Develop billing and metering systems that track resource usage and generate invoices
• Create orchestration systems to coordinate antenna operations across the global network
• Collaborate with Customers, network operations, and the larger software team
• Work with customers on defining secure and scalable interfaces for Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) and payload data transfer

Required qualifications

• 5+ 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)

Nice to have

• Experience with one or more of the following languages: Rust, Golang, etc
• Open to other languages suitable for cloud services and distributed systems
• Experience building global-scale customer-facing platforms with high reliability requirements
• Knowledge of API design, authentication, and access control best practices
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues
• Familiarity with billing systems, usage tracking, or subscription management
• Understanding of simulation and modeling (Satellite propogation, etc)
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of satellite communications or relevant domain experience

Before you apply

• 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., pro

About the company

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. They design, build, and rapidly deploy scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions.