# Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Northwood Space

- Company: Northwood Space
- What the company does: Take space missions further faster. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.northwoodspace.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Torrance, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/northwoodspace/5410d776-cb11-482e-b48a-9c4ba210454e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/northwood-space-senior-infrastructure-engineer/

## About the role

Develop and drive scope in one or more areas of the infrastructure stack. Take ambiguous problems from framing through design, implementation, and operation. Set the technical direction for your areas — write RFCs, evaluate tradeoffs, and make decisions that affect how the team operates for years.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, network, or systems engineering), with demonstrated ownership of systems that were still operating well years after they were built
- Working competence across: Linux, networking, AWS or equivalent cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secrets management. Expert-level depth in at least one of these
- Track record of taking ambiguous problems and producing designs and implementation that others can operate. Not just executing well-scoped work
- Senior on-call experience — has been the person a team escalates to, not just a rotation participant
- Strong code and automation skills (Python, Go, or similar). Can build tooling, not just wire together existing tools.Proven technical writing and mentorship. Has grown other engineers and produced documentation that teams continue to use
- US person status (ITAR requirement)

Tags: Engineering