Lead Cloud Architect for Global Space Network

Speedrun Talent Network; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space in Torrance is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own and grow our Cloud team. You will define the direction for cloud services, scheduling, booking, and network orchestration across a global edge-to-cloud environment.

You will mentor engineers, design scalable systems, and collaborate across ground and data teams to deliver a reliable, secure, and high-performance platform for satellite missions.

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, resource allocation, 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 cloud-based booking and reservation system for global antenna network access.
• Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and portals for scheduling and booking to automated network rerouting.
• Implement workflows with strong guarantees for customers and scalable site deployments.
• Own orchestration layer coordinating antenna operations across global network and interfaces between cloud services and ground systems.
• Design and operate control plane, dataplane and telemetry delivery path across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop billing and metering systems to track resource usage and generate invoices.
• Drive design and implementation of comprehensive monitoring solutions for platform uptime.
• Collaborate with Ground and Data teams to build a resilient global network.
• Work with customers to define secure, scalable TT&C interfaces and payload data transfer.

Skills

Cloud

Distributed systems

Leadership

APIs

Kubernetes

Billing systems

Monitoring

Security

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Northwood Space in Torrance is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own and grow our Cloud team. You will define the direction for cloud services, scheduling, booking, and network orchestration across a global edge-to-cloud environment.

You will mentor engineers, design scalable systems, and collaborate across ground and data teams to deliver a reliable, secure, and high-performance platform for satellite missions.