Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Job description

About Northwood: Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. The world runs on space. Space will run on Northwood. Our global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail. Senior Infrastructure Engineer Senior individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team. Works from ambiguity, develops scope, and serves as the final escalation point for on-call. 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, prod...