Lead Software Engineer

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Lead Software Engineer in USA

northwoodspace
Full time
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USA
08/16/2026
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Torrance, CA

Responsibilities

Lead the Cloud team by setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving execution, and owning cloud-services delivery end to end.
Design and develop the cloud-based booking and reservation system for global antenna-network access.
Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and portals for scheduling, booking, and automated network rerouting.
Implement workflows that provide strong customer guarantees while optimizing global site utilization.
Own the orchestration layer coordinating antenna operations across the global network and define interfaces between cloud services and ground systems.
Design and operate the control plane, data plane, and telemetry delivery path across on-premises and cloud environments.
Develop billing and metering systems that track resource usage and generate invoices.
Design and implement comprehensive monitoring to support continuous platform uptime.
Collaborate with Ground, Data, site operations, and network operations teams to build a resilient global network.
Work with customers to define secure, scalable, simple, and extensible interfaces for TT&C and payload data transfer.

Requirements

At least 6 years of professional software development experience.
At least 3 years building and scaling cloud-based services and APIs in production environments.
Experience leading engineering teams or projects as a tech lead, including mentoring engineers and driving technical direction.
Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms.
Proficiency with modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Preferred experience with Rust, Golang, Haskell, or other languages suitable for cloud services and distributed systems.
Experience building global-scale customer-facing platforms with high reliability requirements.
Experience defining service boundaries and interfaces across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
Knowledge of API design, authentication, and access-control best practices.
Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues.
Experience with high-throughput data delivery, streaming pipelines, or telemetry systems.
Familiarity with billing systems, usage tracking, or subscription management.
Understanding of simulation and modeling, such as satellite propagation.
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
Knowledge of satellite communications or related domain experience is beneficial but not required.

Benefits

The role is based in Northwood’s Torrance office.
Employment may require U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected-individual status, or authorization eligibility under ITAR regulations.
Reasonable accommodations are available for applications and interviews.

Salary: $174k - $260k/yr

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