Staff Software Engineer - Backend

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
• Create 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

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
• Experience with 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