About the role
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. Infrastructure Engineer Core individual contributor role on the Northwood Infrastructure team. Operates defined scope independently with a spike in at least one area of depth.
Responsibilities Own and operate one or more components of the Northwood infrastructure stack (CI/CD, app platform, cloud/IaC, networking, observability, security tooling). Take a defined scope and execute without ongoing oversight. Build and maintain infrastructure as code. Default to Terraform, Helm, and GitOps. Carry on-call for the infra stack. Handle the majority of incidents to resolution independently. Run post-incident reviews for incidents you owned. Partner with security engineering and compliance on controls implementation in your areas - Vault policies, IAM boundaries, SIEM coverage, evidence collection. Treat toil as a design signal. When manual work repeats, automate it or fix the underlying system. Write and maintain runbooks, design docs, and component documentation. Keep them current with the system. Collaborate across infra, product engineering, and ground station operations on cross-cutting work. Basic
Qualifications 3-5 years of production infrastructure experience (SRE, DevOps, platform, network, or systems engineering). Working competence across: Linux, networking fundamentals, AWS or equivalent cloud, infrastructure as code (Terraform), containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling. Not expert in all — competent enough to operate and contribute. Demonstrated ownership of a production system end-to-end: design, implementation, operation. On-call experience in a production environment with measurable reliability outcomes. Comfortable in code (Python, Go, or similar) for automation, tooling, and integration work. Strong technical writing — design docs, runbooks, post-mortems. Preferred
