Astronomer

Astronomer

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

New York City · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
PythonGoCode ReviewGitAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDCircleCIPrometheusPlatform EngineeringAirflowData EngineeringPlaywrightCommunication

About the role

  • At Astronomer, we're redefining how companies run Apache Airflow at scale.
  • We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team.

Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.
  • Your work will directly influence how we build Astro, Observe and our IDE product, as well as how global organizations orchestrate data pipelines at scale-making them faster, more reliable, and easier to manage.
  • Make high-quality, data-driven and experience-driven decisions on how we build this and the next generation of our production platform, then deliver the results.
  • Own and build how we test, build and deploy code in a high-scale PaaS environment.
  • Collaborate across the whole company on how we design production systems, set standards and make technology choices for new and existing products, and how these fit together.
  • Deliver results - we routinely "change the wheels on the bus while it's moving", in a predictable, safe and reliable way.
  • Blaze a Trail: Work on a small but growing team on building out the Platform/Reliability practice for the company - this role reports directly to the VP of Reliability.
  • Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in Python, Golang and in-depth experience with Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent or greater).
  • Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in working with a globally distributed team in delivery.
  • Ability to estimate the scope of work accurately and coordinate with stakeholders to address risks and ensure successful project delivery.
  • Experience with our particular tech stack components and technologies (deep breath): CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, Github [Actions] …
  • Strong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design https://sre.google/workbook/non-abstract-design/ and implementation.
  • A passion for reliability and operational excellence. A low tolerance for toil and other nonsense.
  • Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.
  • Participated in an on-call rotation - this role involves periodic on-call for the services we own.

Nice to have

  • Experience with (and ideally strong opinions on) software development best practices, such as code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.

Skills

  • CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, Github [Actions] …
  • Experience of the innards and quirks of AWS, GCP and (particularly) Azure.
  • Experience with Apache Airflow.
  • Our R&D organization is home to some of the most innovative minds in cloud infrastructure and open-source software.
  • Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers.

Company info

  • Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®.
  • Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications.
  • Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data.
  • To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io http://www.astronomer.io.
  • Work on a small but growing team on building out the Platform/Reliability practice for the company - this role reports directly to the VP of Reliability.
  • Be at the forefront of how we work together as a Platform Engineering team.

Equal opportunity

  • we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Apply directly at Astronomer →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Astronomer immigration profile

This listing is sourced directly from Astronomer's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.