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Job Summary:
NorthwoodSpace is on a mission to transform connectivity between earth and space through innovations in space communications technologies. They are seeking a Software Engineer to join their Distributed Systems team, responsible for designing and optimizing functionalities within the global ground station network infrastructure.
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
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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:
• 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 was founded in 2022 by Bridgit Mendler, Griffin Cleverly, and Shaurya Luthra with the mission to expand access to space by transforming satellite backhaul infrastructure. Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Torrance, California, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.
