Fullstack Software Engineer (Platform)

About the role

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 and parabolic 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. The problems span CI and release, observability, hardware operations, developer tooling, and security, and every one of them 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. The work includes simulated ground stations and lab test benches running real hardware, where each release is tested against realistic conditions before it reaches a live site.

We're looking for a Software Engineer on the Platform team to design and build this software end to end, from backend services and automation to the interfaces people use every day. The role is broad, across backend, frontend, CI/CD, infrastructure, and security, and you'll own major parts of the platform.

We look for people who fix problems they find even when they aren't theirs, move quickly from question to working result, hold their own work to a high bar, take hard feedback well, and want more responsibility than they have today.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You'll work across these areas and own more of them over time.

- Delivery: Build the CI and release systems that take code from commit to production in the cloud and at sites around the world, safely and repeatably.

- Testing and simulation: Build simulated ground stations, lab test benches with real hardware, and test data replay, and wire them into the release path so releases are tested before they go live.

- Observability: Build the monitoring, logging, and alerting that let engineers and operators see the health of every service and site, and act on it.