Astronomer
Principal Software Engineer
New York City · Principal · Full-time
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About the role
- We are seeking an exceptional Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and team mentorship for our core engineering group.
- Both our control plane and data planes deploy locally inside the customer's infrastructure.
- This is a unique infrastructure challenge:
Responsibilities
- Define, Design, and Build Core Architecture: Own the end-to-end definition, design, and implementation of both the control plane and data plane services, creating highly resilient inter-connections between them to power this self-contained infrastructure platform.
- Architect an Extensible Platform API: Drive the design, data modeling, versioning, and long-term backward compatibility of robust APIs (such as REST or gRPC).
- Mentor and Elevate: Foster a culture of engineering and operational excellence through comprehensive design reviews, high-leverage code contributions, and direct career mentorship for senior engineers.
- Advanced Coding & Systems Design: Expert-level software development skills (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript) with deep knowledge of distributed state stores (such as Etcd, Consul, or PostgreSQL), concurrency, and network security patterns.
- Define, Design, and Build Core Architecture:
- Own the end-to-end definition, design, and implementation of both the control plane and data plane services, creating highly resilient inter-connections between them to power this self-contained infrastructure platform.
- Drive the design, data modeling, versioning, and long-term backward compatibility of robust APIs (such as REST or gRPC).
- Design Comprehensive Platform Observability:
- You have practical experience building custom Kubernetes Operators (CRDs), managing Helm deployments, and working with the Kubernetes API to orchestrate application lifecycles.
- Hands-on systems design expertise involving isolated environments across multiple public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), Red Hat OpenShift enterprise deployments, and bare-metal on-premise infrastructure.
Requirements
- Top-Notch Technical Communication: Exceptional oral and written communication skills with a proven ability to author crisp, high-density technical "one-pagers" and actionable RFCs.
- Proven success building production-grade infrastructure control planes, with a deep understanding of API design principles required to support programmatic customer workflows and user interfaces.
Compensation
- The estimated salary for this role ranges from $277,000 - $390,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
- The estimated salary for this role ranges from $277,000 - $390,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package.
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.
- At Astronomer, we value diversity.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer:
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