Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Space Networking

Northwood Space; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwood Space in Washington, DC is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize a global service delivering connectivity to customers. You will own areas from antenna control to customer APIs for booking satellite passes, and work across embedded, networking, and web services.

The role spans cloud orchestration, API development, and high-bandwidth data movement across a global ground network.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience in distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, cloud services, and front-end integration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture of a global distributed control plane.
• Build and own customer-facing and internal APIs for satellite passes.
• Design real-time TT&C / data-transfer interfaces and secure streaming channels.
• Architect data pipelines and high bandwidth data movement between sites.
• Develop and apply monitoring, alerting, and reliability practices.
• Collaborate across embedded, RF, and SW engineering teams.

Skills

Rust

Golang

C/C++

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud computing

Linux

Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Northwood Space in Washington, DC is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize a global service delivering connectivity to customers. You will own areas from antenna control to customer APIs for booking satellite passes, and work across embedded, networking, and web services.

The role spans cloud orchestration, API development, and high-bandwidth data movement across a global ground network.