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Lead Software Engineer (Prism)

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Lead Software Engineer (Prism) in USA new

  • northwoodspace
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Torrance, CA

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Cloud team by setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving execution, and owning delivery of cloud services.
  • Design and develop a cloud-based booking and reservation system for global antenna network access.
  • Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and portals for scheduling, booking, and automated network rerouting.
  • Implement distributed workflows for resource allocation and complex scheduling constraints.
  • Own the orchestration layer and define interfaces between cloud services and on-site ground systems.
  • Design and operate control-plane, data-plane, and telemetry delivery paths across cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Develop billing and metering systems that track resource usage and generate invoices.
  • Drive comprehensive monitoring to support continuous platform uptime.
  • Collaborate with Ground, Data, site operations, and network operations teams to build a resilient global network.
  • Define secure and scalable customer interfaces for telemetry, tracking, control, and payload data transfer.

Requirements

  • 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, mentoring engineers, and driving technical direction.
  • Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms.
  • Proficiency with modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Preferred experience with Rust, Golang, Haskell, or other languages suitable for cloud services and distributed systems.
  • Preferred experience building global-scale customer-facing platforms with high reliability requirements.
  • Preferred experience defining service boundaries across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Knowledge of API design, authentication, access control, event-driven architectures, and message queues.
  • Preferred experience with high-throughput data delivery, streaming pipelines, telemetry systems, billing, usage tracking, or subscription management.
  • Understanding of simulation and modeling, such as satellite propagation, is beneficial.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines is preferred.
  • Knowledge of satellite communications or related domain experience is beneficial but not required.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Northwood’s Torrance office.
  • Applicants may request reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process.
  • Employment is subject to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR eligibility requirements.
  • Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary: $174k - $260k/yr

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