Software Engineer – Network

Azora•Phoenix, AZ

40d•Onsite

About The Position

Build the software that moves data through Azora's space-ground optical network: link control, data plane services, scheduling, and the ground-side services that turn raw optical downlinks into reliable customer data delivery. You will implement the protocols and services the Network Architect defines – and help shape them with real implementation feedback.

Requirements

BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant work in networked systems or distributed services.
Strong skills in at least one of: Go, Rust, C++, or modern Python for backend/network services.
Solid understanding of TCP/UDP, sockets, serialization, and performance tuning of network services.
Experience with Linux systems programming and deployment (containers, systemd, CI/CD).

Nice To Haves

Experience with satellite ground systems, CCSDS protocols, or SDR/communications software.
High-performance networking experience (DPDK, io_uring, kernel bypass, or 10/25/100GbE pipelines).
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), message queues, and time-series telemetry stacks (Prometheus, InfluxDB, Grafana).
Exposure to DTN, custom ARQ protocols, or erasure coding for lossy links.

Responsibilities

Implement networking software for the ground segment: link management, framing/ARQ logic, data ingest pipelines, store-and-forward services, and customer delivery APIs.
Build the pass scheduling and orchestration services that coordinate satellites, ground stations, and weather data in near-real time.
Develop telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) software paths, including encrypted command uplink and telemetry processing.
Write high-throughput data plane code capable of sustaining multi-Gbps downlink rates from receiver hardware to storage and network egress.
Build monitoring, logging, and operational tooling for a distributed, multi-site network.
Develop simulation and test harnesses for protocol behavior over fading optical channels (packet loss, burst errors, outages).
Participate in on-call support of operational ground stations as the network scales.