Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About the role

Astronomer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team and help redefine how companies run Apache Airflow at scale. You will work on the design, build, testing, and deployment of production infrastructure for the Astro platform. This role involves influencing the development of cloud-native systems and ensuring the reliability and performance of data pipelines for global organizations.

Responsibilities

• Make high-quality, data-driven decisions on the development of the next generation of the production platform.
• Own and build processes for testing, building, and deploying code in a high-scale PaaS environment.
• Collaborate across the company to design production systems, set standards, and make technology choices.
• Deliver results in a predictable, safe, and reliable manner while maintaining existing systems.
• Participate in incident management and establish operational practices as the platform evolves.
• Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes.

Required skills

• Non-Abstract Systems design
• Python
• Golang
• Kubernetes
• Observability
• SLI/SLO
• CI/CD
• Automation
• Debugging

Nice to have

• SaaS/PaaS
• CircleCI
• Chronosphere
• Prometheus
• Splunk
• Bazel
• Istio
• Playwright
• Karpenter
• Github Actions

Certifications

• CKA

About the Company

Astronomer is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow. The company empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life, serving more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises.