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Salary: USD 168,000 - 230,000 / annual
Astronomer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team, reporting directly to the VP of Reliability. You will work on the ground level of how production infrastructure is designed, built, tested, and deployed for Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow. Your work will directly influence how global organizations orchestrate data pipelines at scale.
In this role, you will:
- Make high-quality, data-driven decisions on building the next generation of the production platform and deliver results in a high-scale PaaS environment.
- Own and build how the company tests, builds, and deploys code, including managing the wheels-on-the-bus-while-moving challenges of continuous deployment in a predictable, safe, and reliable way.
- Collaborate across the organization on designing production systems, setting standards, and making technology choices for new and existing products.
- Be directly involved in decision-making on what the Platform Engineering team works on and how it works, with ownership of commitments and accountability.
- Participate in incident management and help determine sensible practices as the platform evolves.
- Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes.
- Participate in periodic on-call rotations for owned services.
You will be part of a small but growing team building out the Platform/Reliability practice, working with a globally distributed organization.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design and implementation
- Strong proficiency in Python and Golang
- In-depth experience with Kubernetes (CKA certification or equivalent or greater)
- Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience working in globally distributed teams
- Passion for reliability and operational excellence; low tolerance for toil
- Ability to accurately estimate scope of work and coordinate with stakeholders to address risks
- Experience with software development best practices: code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation, and debugging
- Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with focus on ownership and accountability
BONUS EXPERIENCE:
- SaaS/PaaS product experience across multiple cloud providers
- Familiarity with CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, or GitHub Actions
- Deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, and Azure internals and quirks
- On-call rotation participation
- Apache Airflow experience
About Astronomer
AI / Data / Infrastructure — data orchestration platform and commercial home of Apache Airflow.
