Staff Backend Engineer: Cloud APIs & Global Scheduling

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

Job summary

Northwood Space is seeking a backend-focused Staff Engineer to lead the development of a cloud-based platform that manages global antenna scheduling, customer booking, and service provisioning. You will design scalable systems for resource allocation, billing, and customer-facing APIs enabling seamless access to our space communication network.

In this role, you will work on distributed scheduling, orchestration, and real-time data routing, collaborating with customers and the broader software

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years building and scaling cloud-based services and APIs in production environments.
• Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms.
• Proficiency in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop cloud-based scheduling and orchestration system for global antenna network access.
• Build and maintain customer-facing APIs for scheduling, real-time communications, and data routing.
• Design and implement control and data planes across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop billing and metering systems to track resource usage and generate invoices.
• Create orchestration systems to coordinate antenna operations across the global network.
• Collaborate with customers, network operations, and software teams to ensure a resilient network.

Skills

5+ years software

3+ years cloud-based services

distributed scheduling

cloud infrastructure

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

APIs design

Job description

Northwood Space is seeking a backend-focused Staff Engineer to lead the development of a cloud-based platform that manages global antenna scheduling, customer booking, and service provisioning. You will design scalable systems for resource allocation, billing, and customer-facing APIs enabling seamless access to our space communication network.

In this role, you will work on distributed scheduling, orchestration, and real-time data routing, collaborating with customers and the broader software