# Staff Software Engineer - Backend

**Company:** [Northwood Space](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/northwood-space)
**Location:** Los Angeles, CA, Washington, DC
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $161k – $224k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Azure, GCP, Rust, Go, Kubernetes, API Design, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, Message Queues, CI/CD, Containerization
**Posted:** 2026-05-12

> Leads development of cloud-based platform for global antenna scheduling, customer booking, service provisioning, billing, and APIs. Requires 7+ years experience with cloud services, distributed systems, and proficiency in AWS/Azure/GCP.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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
- Design and implement Northwood's control and data planes, ensuring seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments
- Develop billing and metering systems that accurately track resource usage and generate invoices
- Create orchestration systems to coordinate antenna operations across our global network
- Collaborate with Customers, network operations, and the larger software team to build a truly resilient global network
- Work with customers on defining secure and scalable interfaces for Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) and payload data transfer, putting simplicity and extensibility first

## Basic Qualifications
- 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)

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with one or more of the following languages: Rust, Golang, etc… Open to other languages suitable for cloud services and distributed systems
- Experience building global-scale customer-facing platforms with high reliability requirements
- Knowledge of API design, authentication, and access control best practices
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues
- Familiarity with billing systems, usage tracking, or subscription management
- Understanding of simulation and modeling (Satellite propogation, etc…)
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of satellite communications or relevant domain experience (beneficial but not required)

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