United States of America Hybrid Full-time USD 88,000 – 111,000 / year

Northwood Space is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer - Early Career

Responsibilities

  • Gain comprehensive understanding of the technology stack, including cloud infrastructure, configuration management, container orchestration, secrets management, monitoring, and network architecture, with opportunities to specialize over time.
  • Carry out defined infrastructure assignments under the guidance of experienced team members, ensuring code changes are completed accurately and integrated efficiently.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure as code, continuous integration and deployment workflows, monitoring setups, and internal operational tools across multiple layers of the system.
  • Observe and assist during on-call duties, helping to assess issues and escalate them appropriately to senior staff when necessary.
  • Engage in incident analysis sessions to develop judgment and understanding of system reliability practices.
  • Produce clear, thorough documentation including operational guides, system descriptions, and design rationales as an integral part of project delivery.
  • Collaborate with senior team members on complex initiatives to understand decision-making patterns and evaluate engineering tradeoffs.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Other

  • This role requires obtaining and maintaining a Top Secret Security Clearance. While not immediately required, candidates should begin the clearance process promptly after offer acceptance. Employment may be adjusted or terminated if clearance cannot be secured.
  • To comply with U.S. space technology export controls, including ITAR regulations, applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or able to secure required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
  • Applicants needing reasonable accommodations during the hiring process should inform the company to request support.
About company
Northwood Space

Northwood is building a global ground network for the future of space communications.

Northwood is an end-to-end ground infrastructure provider – from initial concept through deployment to live data delivery. By vertically integrating the entire ground stack, we can collapse what used to take years into months, and what took months into days. Our vision is building towards a ground infrastructure layer that works like cloud computing, where global capacity and routing scales on demand without the usual procurement cycles, vendor coordination, or integration challenges.

We’re a team of engineers, operators, and builders — with experience across aerospace, defense, cloud infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing — committed to building resilient infrastructure for the next century of space operations.

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Job Details
Department Infrastructure
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago