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About the role
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
What they're looking for
- 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 a track record of mentoring engineers and driving technical direction
- Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms
- Proficiency in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
- Rust, Golang, Haskell, etc
More about this role
Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.
Northwood Space is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to own and grow our Cloud team in our Torrance office. Northwood's backend organization is split across three domains: Cloud, Ground, and Data. The Cloud team is responsible for all of Northwood's cloud services, the orchestration of our global ground station network, and the data plane responsible for routing gigabits to terabits per second of data across the world.
In this role, you will lead the team building the cloud platform that manages global antenna scheduling, customer booking, service...
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