Senior Software Engineer – Space SDN Arbiter (Contract)

Auria Space; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Flex time

11 paid days off

401(k) match

Tuition assistance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Auria Space in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and integrate key software components for the SDN-B MOC. This contingent position offers exposure to state‑of‑the‑practice distributed systems and high‑scale orchestration.

You will implement decision logic for resource allocation, build arbitration across service levels, and support automated provisioning and networking tasks critical to mission operations.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years software engineering experience.
• Go experience strongly preferred; Python; backend/distributed systems; rules engines or policy engines; workflow/orchestration software; concurrency experience.
• Kubernetes; high‑performance API services; network configuration/provisioning; strong automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Build the decision logic that determines how SDN resources get allocated and prioritized.
• Specifically build hierarchical arbitration across Service, Regional and User precedence, with performance at scale.
• The candidate would support automated provisioning (terminal whitelisting, IP assignment and traffic-flow pinning to regional pLEO SDN PoPs).

Skills

Go

Python

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Rules engine

Workflow orchestration

Concurrency

Automated testing

APIs

Networking basics

Tools

Kubernetes

Network provisioning

Automation tooling

Job description

Auria Space in Carlsbad, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and integrate key software components for the SDN-B MOC. This contingent position offers exposure to state‑of‑the‑practice distributed systems and high‑scale orchestration.

You will implement decision logic for resource allocation, build arbitration across service levels, and support automated provisioning and networking tasks critical to mission operations.