Space-Ground Network Software Engineer — Hybrid

PLP Group; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous equity

Competitive healthcare

401(k)

Unlimited PTO

EEO & Reasonable Accommodations

Job summary

Azora is hiring a software engineer to build the software that moves data through its space-ground optical network. You will implement link control, data plane services, scheduling, and ground-side processing that turns downlinks into reliable customer data delivery.

You will contribute to pass scheduling, telemetry, TT&C paths, and encrypted uplinks, while delivering high-throughput code and robust monitoring for a distributed, multi-site network.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience in networked systems or distributed services.
• Strong skills in Go, Rust, C++, or Python for backend/network services.
• Solid understanding of TCP/UDP, sockets, serialization, and performance tuning of network services.
• Experience with Linux systems programming and deployment (containers, systemd, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Develop networking software for the ground segment: link management and data ingest pipelines.
• Build pass scheduling and orchestration services coordinating satellites, ground stations, and weather data.
• Develop TT&C software paths including encrypted command uplink and telemetry processing.
• Write high-throughput data plane code for multi-Gbps downlink rates.
• Create monitoring, logging, and operational tooling for a distributed, multi-site network.
• Develop simulation/test harnesses for protocol behavior over fading optical channels.
• Participate in on-call support for operational ground stations as the network scales.

Skills

Go

Rust

C++

Python

TCP/UDP

sockets

serialization

Linux

Containers

CI/CD

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

DPDK

io_uring

kernel bypass

10/25/100GbE pipelines

Job description

Azora is hiring a software engineer to build the software that moves data through its space-ground optical network. You will implement link control, data plane services, scheduling, and ground-side processing that turns downlinks into reliable customer data delivery.

You will contribute to pass scheduling, telemetry, TT&C paths, and encrypted uplinks, while delivering high-throughput code and robust monitoring for a distributed, multi-site network.