Northwood · 3 days ago
Senior Software Engineer (Space Systems)
Torrance, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expNorthwood 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. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Distributed Systems team, focusing on designing, implementing, and optimizing data and control plane functionalities within their global ground station network infrastructure.
AerospaceHardwareSatellite Communication
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
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
Qualification
Required
5-7+ 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
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
Company
Northwood
Northwood was founded by Bridgit Mendler, Griffin Cleverly, and Shaurya Luthra with the mission to expand access to space by transforming satellite backhaul infrastructure.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$36.4MKey Investors
Harvard Innovation Labs
2025-04-22Series A· $30M
2024-02-19Seed· $6.3M
2023-02-08Grant· $0.1M
Leadership Team
Bridgit Mendler
CEO – Cofounder
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Griffin Cleverly
Co-Founder, CTO
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