Cloud Platform Lead Engineer — Global Antenna Network

Northwood Space; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space, a modern space infrastructure company, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and grow the Cloud team in Torrance. You will set technical direction for the cloud platform that manages global antenna scheduling, booking, service provisioning, and network orchestration.

You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end delivery, design scalable APIs, and coordinate between cloud, ground, and data systems while delivering reliable, secure, and high-throughput services to customers around

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years building and scaling cloud-based services and APIs in production.
• Experience leading engineering teams or projects as a tech lead.
• Experience with distributed scheduling systems or booking platforms.
• Proficiency in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cloud team: set technical direction, mentor engineers, drive execution, and own delivery of Northwood’s cloud services end to end.
• Design and develop Northwood’s cloud-based booking and reservation system for global antenna network access.
• Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and portals for scheduling, booking, and automated network rerouting.
• Implement sophisticated workflows that provide strong guarantees to customers across sites worldwide.
• Own the orchestration layer coordinating antenna operations and interfaces between cloud services and ground systems.
• Design and operate the control plane, data plane, and telemetry delivery path across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop billing and metering systems to track resource usage and generate invoices.
• Drive a comprehensive monitoring solution to ensure uptime across the platform.
• Collaborate with Ground and Data teams, site operations, and network teams to build a resilient global network.
• Define secure, scalable TT&C interfaces and payload data transfer with simplicity and extensibility.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GC)

API design

Team leadership / tech lead

Kubernetes & CI/CD

Billing / metering systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Northwood Space, a modern space infrastructure company, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to own and grow the Cloud team in Torrance. You will set technical direction for the cloud platform that manages global antenna scheduling, booking, service provisioning, and network orchestration.

You will mentor engineers, drive end-to-end delivery, design scalable APIs, and coordinate between cloud, ground, and data systems while delivering reliable, secure, and high-throughput services to customers around