Lead Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Cloud team: set technical direction, mentor engineers, drive execution, and own delivery of Northwood's cloud services end to end
• Design and develop Northwood's cloud-based booking and reservation system for global antenna network access
• Build and maintain customer-facing APIs and portals for everything from scheduling and booking to automated network rerouting
• Implement sophisticated workflows that provide strong guarantees to our customers and make the most out of every site we deploy across the world
• Own the orchestration layer that coordinates antenna operations across our global network, including the interfaces and contracts between cloud services and on-site ground systems
• Design and operate the control plane, dataplane and telemetry delivery path, ensuring seamless integration across on-premises and cloud environments
• Develop billing and metering systems that accurately track resource usage and generate invoices
• Drive the design and implementation of a comprehensive monitoring solution to ensure continuous platform uptime
• Collaborate with the Ground and Data teams, site operations, and network operations to build a truly resilient global network
• Work with customers on defining secure and scalable interfaces for Telemetry, Tracking, and Control (TT&C) and payload data transfer, putting simplicity and extensibility first
• Basic Qualifications:
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• 3+ years building and scaling cloud-based services and APIs in production environments
• Experience leading engineering teams or projects as a tech lead, with a track record of mentoring engineers and driving technical direction
• Experience with distributed scheduling systems, resource allocation, or booking platforms
• Proficiency in modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with one or more of the following languages:
• Rust, Golang, Haskell, etc.
• Open to other languages suitable for cloud services and distributed systems