Senior Software Engineer

About Northwood
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Northwood is on a mission to transform connectivity between earth and space and bring the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed globally with real impact, we want you at Northwood.

Role:
Northwood Space is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Distributed Systems team in our Torrance office. As a Distributed Systems Software Engineer, you will be pivotal in designing, implementing, and optimizing data and control plane functionalities within our global ground station network infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and customers to develop innovative solutions that enable reliable, efficient, simple, and available systems. Your expertise in distributed and scalable systems will be essential in achieving our reliability, scalability, and performance goals.

Responsibilities
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• Ownership of the Distributed Systems responsible for sequencing, provisioning, and configuring all of Northwood's core infrastructure and network
• Design and implement Northwood's control and data planes, ensuring seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments, emphasizing low latency and high throughput data distribution
• Work with customers on defining secure and scalable interfaces for Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) and payload data