Software, Platform (Early Career)
northwoodspace8 hours ago
Torrance, CA, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$123k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build CI and release pipelines for cloud services and remote ground stations.
- Implement staged rollouts and fast rollback to make software delivery safe and continuous.
- Build simulated ground stations, lab test benches, and data-replay tools for realistic testing.
- Automate the onboarding, configuration, updating, and health management of remote ground-station servers.
- Develop monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry systems for services and sites.
- Build backend services and web interfaces used by engineers and operators.
- Define cloud and site infrastructure as code and implement identity, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
- Work directly with internal users, ship to production, and take on increasing ownership with mentorship.
Requirements
- 0–2 years of professional software experience, with internships, research, open source, and projects counting toward experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent alternative experience.
- Experience writing real software beyond required coursework in at least one general-purpose language such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or C++.
- Experience building and shipping software used or relied on by others.
- Ability to independently solve difficult technical problems, such as debugging non-obvious failures or designing systems from scratch.
- Preferred: backend API and frontend development, including technologies such as React and REST APIs.
- Preferred: exposure to CI pipelines, containers, cloud platforms, and infrastructure as code.
- Preferred: comfort with Linux and the command line or experience with operating systems, networking, or distributed systems.
- Preferred: experience building tools, scripts, or libraries for other developers.
- Preferred: projects involving hardware, embedded systems, RF, robotics, space, CubeSats, rocketry, or robotics teams.
- Preferred: side projects, competitions, research, or other evidence of taking initiative.
- Preferred: comfort with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
- Must meet applicable U.S. Government space technology export-control eligibility requirements.
Benefits
- Early-career position with close mentorship and increasing ownership.
- Production deployment opportunities from the first weeks.
- Reasonable accommodation is available during the application and interview process.
- Work is subject to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including ITAR.
About northwoodspace
Northwood Space builds and operates a global network of phased-array ground stations that provide real-time, reliable links to satellites. It serves government and commercial satellite operators supporting national security, connectivity, and disaster response missions, offering ground-network capacity as a service with a vertically integrated hardware and software stack. The privately held company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and focuses on international markets alongside U.S. government and allied space customers.