Senior Software Engineer (Space Communications)

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Senior Software Engineer (Space Communications) in USA

northwoodspace
Full time
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USA
10/23/2026
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Washington, DC

Responsibilities

Design and implement a global distributed control plane that schedules satellite passes across AWS and on-premises nodes.
Build and operate customer-facing and internal APIs for searching, reserving, updating, and canceling satellite passes.
Develop workflow orchestration, satellite communications, telemetry, command-uplink, and data-transfer systems.
Design control software for ground-station hardware, embedded systems, and RF modems.
Architect high-throughput data pipelines and a Tbps-class SD-WAN overlay across sites, storage buckets, and customer VPCs.
Create monitoring, alerting, telemetry, predictive-diagnostics, and uptime-improvement systems.
Build infrastructure, security, deployment, production-line testing, and hardware/software reliability tools.
Develop simulations and orchestration software for satellite, network, antenna, and distributed-node systems.
Mentor teams, drive technical decisions, and establish engineering standards through design RFCs.

Requirements

5–7+ years of professional software development experience, including experience gained through internships, projects, or personal work.
Completed bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, with equivalent experience considered.
Proficiency in one or more of Rust, Golang, C, or C++.
Experience designing and implementing distributed systems, cloud services, orchestration engines, data pipelines, APIs, or high-throughput networking.
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; embedded systems; FPGA programming; FreeRTOS; or Zephyr.
Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and front-end frameworks such as Angular or React.
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, or GitLab CI/CD and an understanding of security and compliance practices.
Experience with InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, data processing, simulations, automated testing, or production-line testing software is preferred.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret Security Clearance and satisfy applicable U.S. space-technology export-control requirements.

Benefits

The role offers broad ownership across cloud, distributed systems, APIs, embedded ground-station software, networking, telemetry, simulations, and testing.
The position may involve work across a full-stack, vertically integrated space infrastructure company with software deployed globally.
A reasonable accommodation is available during the application or interview process.
The role requires obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance, which may not be immediately necessary upon hire.

Salary: $161k - $224k/yr

northwoodspace

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