NorthwoodSpace
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Torrance, CA · Senior
Work authorization required$171k-$800kDetected 90 days ago
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About the role
- 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 Senior individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team.
- Translate between infrastructure constraints and the needs of other teams. - Identify systemic toil and underinvestment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive scope in one or more areas of the infrastructure stack. Take ambiguous problems from framing through design, implementation, and operation.
- Act as the final escalation point on-call. Drive resolution of the hardest incidents and lead post-incident reviews that produce durable fixes.
- Raise the bar through design review, code review, and mentorship. Develop other engineers by working alongside them, not just reviewing their output.
- Partner with security, compliance, product engineering, and ground station ops as a peer technical leader. Translate between infrastructure constraints and the needs of other teams.
- Represent the infrastructure team in technical decisions across the organization. Write the documents others reference.
- Develop and drive scope in one or more areas of the infrastructure stack.
- Take ambiguous problems from framing through design, implementation, and operation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, network, or systems engineering), with demonstrated ownership of systems that were still operating well years after they were built.
Nice to have
- Deep background in one or more of the following.
- At the senior level, expertise in a domain is expected - the question is which one, not whether.
- Compliance partnership - leading technical controls implementation for CMMC, FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, ITAR, including SSP contribution
- Additional Requirements:
- This position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment.
- Your ability to secure the necessary clearance is essential for fulfilling key responsibilities of the role.
- Should you be unable to obtain it, Northwood Space reserves the right to modify or terminate your employment to align with optional needs.
- Additional Information:
Skills
- US person status (ITAR requirement).
Compensation
- $171k-$800k
Company info
- 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 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.
- Senior individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team.
- Works from ambiguity, develops scope, and serves as the final escalation point for on-call.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position requires successfully obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance as a condition of employment
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