Platform Engineer — Space Infrastructure (Early Career)

northwoodspace; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Accommodation on request

Job summary

Northwood Space is seeking an early-career Software Engineer to join Platform Engineering. You’ll help ship production software across a global ground-station network and cloud services, building CI pipelines, monitoring, and tooling to keep systems healthy and scalable.

You’ll learn quickly, reason through novel problems, and grow ownership as you demonstrate readiness. Mentorship will guide your first weeks and ongoing contributions.

Qualifications

• 0 to 2 years of professional software experience (internships/counts).
• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, EE, math, or related field (soft requirement).
• Has written real software in Python/Go/Rust/TypeScript/C++.
• Built and shipped something used by others.
• Solved a hard technical problem largely on their own.

Responsibilities

• Ship software to production across sites and cloud services.
• Build CI and release pipelines from commit to production.
• Ensure observability and health monitoring across all sites and services.
• Develop tools and interfaces used by engineers and operators.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Northwood Space is seeking an early-career Software Engineer to join Platform Engineering. You’ll help ship production software across a global ground-station network and cloud services, building CI pipelines, monitoring, and tooling to keep systems healthy and scalable.

You’ll learn quickly, reason through novel problems, and grow ownership as you demonstrate readiness. Mentorship will guide your first weeks and ongoing contributions.