Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Northwood Space
United States
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 135,000 - 183,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Linux","Cloud","Terraform","Kubernetes","CI/CD","Observability","Secrets management","Python","Go"]

Senior infrastructure engineer on the Northwood Infrastructure team responsible for owning and delivering end-to-end infrastructure scope, setting technical direction, and serving as the final escalation point on-call. You will mentor engineers, drive design decisions, partner with security/compliance and ground station operations, and identify systemic toil to improve reliability and operational efficiency.

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Northwood Space
Northwood Space
4 months ago

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior infrastructure engineer on the Northwood Infrastructure team responsible for owning and delivering end-to-end infrastructure scope, setting technical direction, and serving as the final escalation point on-call. You will mentor engineers, drive design decisions, partner with security/compliance and ground station operations, and identify systemic toil to improve reliability and operational efficiency.
Location: United States
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and drive scope in one or more areas of the infrastructure stack. Take ambiguous problems from framing through design, implementation, and operation.
  • •Set the technical direction for your areas — write RFCs, evaluate tradeoffs, and make decisions that affect how the team operates for years.
  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 135,000 - 183,000 annually

Key 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.
  • •Working competence across: Linux, networking, AWS or equivalent cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secrets management. Expert-level depth in at least one.
  • •Track record of taking ambiguous problems and producing designs and implementation that others can operate.
  • •Senior on-call experience — has been the person a team escalates to, not just a rotation participant.
  • •Strong code and automation skills (Python, Go, or similar). Can build tooling, not just wire together existing tools.Proven technical writing and mentorship. Has grown other engineers and produced documentation that teams continue to use.
Experience:5+ yearsInfrastructureSREDevOpsCloudKubernetes
Skills:LinuxCloudTerraformKubernetesCI/CDObservabilitySecrets managementPythonGo
Tech Stack:LinuxAWSTerraformKubernetesCI/CDObservabilitySecrets managementPythonGo

Company Brief

Northwood Space
Builds modern, scalable ground infrastructure and phased-array antenna systems to improve satellite-to-Earth communications, providing rapidly deployable ground stations and networking for commercial and government space missions.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2023
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