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Fullstack Software Engineer (Platform)

Northwood Space · Torrance, CA

Posted Oct 29, 2026 · full time

Est. total comp~$201K–$317K

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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. …

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Job inventory

Required 18 items

  • 3y

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field (or 4+ years of related experience)

Experience: 3+ years of experience in professional software engineering

Skills and tools: Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Linux

Clearance and work authorization: US person (ITAR)

Preferred 3 items

Skills and tools: React, Vue, Angular

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