Platform Engineer, Fullstack & Infra for Global Space

Northwood Space Corp.; Torrance (CA); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Northwood Space Corp. is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform team to design and build software end to end, spanning backend services, automation, and front-end interfaces.

You will work across CI/CD, observability, and security and own major parts of the platform in a globally distributed ground-station network. The role involves developing simulated ground stations and lab test benches, shipping code that runs on cloud and remote sites, and collaborating with engineers and operators to

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Has built backend services or APIs that others depend on.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Containers and container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• A cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Linux and the command line.
• Owned a service or tool from design through production.
• Written technical docs (design docs, RFCs, or runbooks).

Responsabilidades

• Delivery: Build CI and release systems for code from commit to production across cloud and sites.
• Testing and simulation: Build simulated ground stations and lab test benches and integrate into release path.
• Observability: Build monitoring, logging, and alerting across services and sites.
• Hardware operations: Automate bringing new sites online and keeping them healthy.
• Self-service tools: Create tools and interfaces for engineers to ship and run software.
• Security by default: Implement identity, secrets management, least-privilege access, and audit trails.
• Infrastructure: Define cloud and site infra as code, versioned and repeatable.
• Developer environments: Fast local development and per-change preview environments.
• Ownership: Own production monitoring, on-call, and root-cause analysis.
• Working with users: Gather requirements, write design docs, ship in small steps.

Conocimientos

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Java

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS

Herramientas

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CloudFormation

Descripción del empleo

Northwood Space Corp. is seeking a Software Engineer for the Platform team to design and build software end to end, spanning backend services, automation, and front-end interfaces.

You will work across CI/CD, observability, and security and own major parts of the platform in a globally distributed ground-station network. The role involves developing simulated ground stations and lab test benches, shipping code that runs on cloud and remote sites, and collaborating with engineers and operators to