# Staff Software Engineer - Backend 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
- Pay: $161K to $224K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/northwoodspace/1aff98f5-3a25-47f9-afc4-4f57aa212694
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/northwood-space-staff-software-engineer-backend/

## About the role

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 everything from scheduling to real time communications and data routing

## What they're looking for

- 7+ 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)
- Rust, Golang, etc…
- Open to other languages suitable for cloud services and distributed systems

Tags: Engineering