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Senior Software Engineer - TeraWave PoP Control-Plane Network Services

Cupertino, CA, US💼 Full-time💰 $248,830–$248,830🗓 2026-08-25 → 2026-09-27

Core

Architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Services, the software layer managing, routing, and controlling a dynamic mesh network of satellite customer terminals in real-time.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & Control Plane)

Builds

The "distributed brain" of a space-based ISP, orchestrating end-to-end connectivity across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes.

Domain

Space-based communications, Satellite Networks, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C++, Rust, Go, Consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos), Distributed caching, Message brokers (Kafka, gRPC), Microservices architecture, High-throughput database design (SQL, NoSQL, Time-Series)

Preferred skills

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), Resiliency patterns (circuit breakers, retries), Event-driven design (CQRS, event-sourcing), Observability (Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry)

Technologies

C++, Rust, Go, Kafka, gRPC, Kubernetes, Istio, Linkerd, Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, SQL, NoSQL, Time-Series

Responsibilities

Design and implement highly available, low-latency control plane services using microservices patterns; Build and maintain stateful distributed services operating across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes; Develop and optimize database schemas to track billions of telemetry points.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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