Software, Platform (Early Career)

Northwood Space; Los Angeles (CA); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Northwood Space in Los Angeles is seeking an early-career Platform Engineer to help ship production software across a global network of antenna ground stations and the cloud services behind them. You’ll work on how code is built, tested, released, and monitored, with an emphasis on reliability and scalable operations.

You’ll learn fast, receive mentorship from experienced engineers, and take on more ownership as you prove your abilities.

Formación

• 0-2 years of professional software experience, internships count.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or related field (soft requirement).
• Has written real software in at least one general-purpose language (Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or C++) beyond coursework.
• Has built and shipped something others used or relied on.
• Has solved a hard technical problem largely on their own, e.g., debugging a non-obvious failure or designing a system from scratch.

Responsabilidades

• Platform Engineering builds software that moves Northwood products from prototype to operation.
• Focus on how code is built, tested, released, and monitored across sites and cloud services.
• Ensure hardware in remote locations is brought online, updated, and kept healthy across the network.
• Ship to real production systems from first weeks with close mentorship and growing ownership.

Conocimientos

Python/Go/Rust

Problem solving

Fast learner

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Herramientas

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS

Descripción del empleo

About Northwood:

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.

Role

Northwood engineers and operators run hardware and software across a global network of antenna ground stations and the cloud services behind them. No one sells a platform for running a network like this at scale, so Northwood builds its own.

Platform Engineering builds the software that takes Northwood products from first prototype to full operation. That covers how code is built, tested, and released, how every site and service is monitored, and how hardware in remote locations is brought online, updated, and kept healthy. Every one of these problems has to work across every site, service, and customer at once.

Few organizations get to build this kind of software in house. What this team builds will shape how a global network of antennas is operated for the missions that depend on it. Every new antenna, site, and customer Northwood adds runs on this platform, and it sets how fast the network can grow.

As an early-career Software Engineer on the Platform team, you'll ship to real production systems from your first weeks, with close mentorship, and take on more ownership as you show you're ready. You don't need to know every part of the stack today. You need to learn fast, reason clearly through problems you haven't seen before, and care a lot about what you build.

Key areas of focus

You'll work across these areas over time. No one is expected to own everything listed.

• Delivery and release
• Simulation and test
• Ground station operations
• Observability
• Internal platform and tools
• Infrastructure and security

Basic Qualifications

• 0 to 2 years of professional software experience. It doesn't have to be a full-time role. Internships, research, open source, and projects outside the classroom all count, so tell us about them.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, math, or a related field. This is a soft requirement: if you didn't pursue a degree, tell us what you did instead.

• Has written real software in at least one general-purpose language (such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or C++) beyond required coursework.

• Has built and shipped something other people used or relied on.

• Has solved a hard technical problem largely on their own, such as debugging a non-obvious failure or designing a system from scratch.

Preferred Qualifications

We don't expect you to have everything below. We do expect you to go deep where your strengths are, and to take ownership of what you work on.

• Languages: proficiency in one or more languages (such as Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript), with opinions about which one fits which job.

• Full stack: has built a backend API and a frontend that uses it (such as a React app on a REST API).

• Shipping software: exposure to CI pipelines (such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI), containers (such as Docker), a cloud platform (such as AWS), or infrastructure as code (such as Terraform or CloudFormation).

• Systems: day-to-day comfort with Linux and the command line, or coursework and projects in operating systems, networking, or distributed systems.

• Tools for others: built a tool, script, or library other developers used.

• Hardware and space: projects involving hardware, embedded systems, RF, robotics, or space, such as a CubeSat, rocketry, or robotics team.

• Drive: a track record of going past what was asked, such as side projects, competitions, research, or things built because you wanted to.

• AI tools: comfort with AI coding tools (such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor).

Additional Information

If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Northwood Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Northwood Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.