Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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 .

About this role:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation and deployment of our flagship enterprise.

At Astronomer, our R&D team is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience in managing Apache Airflow at scale. As a leading player in the industry, we are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to work on the platform team of our flagship Enterprise product, Astro Private Cloud. This team is responsible for maintaining and developing the API services, authentication, authorization, logging, observability, and alerting frameworks, common UI components, and the general reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the platform. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to scale and deliver exceptional value to our customers.

What You Get To Do:

• Lead the design, development, and vision of Astro Private Cloud’s architecture and components across authentication and authorization, core API services, logging, metrics, and observability.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement, and iterate on the features used by the engineering org as a whole.

• Work with product management and customers to deliver customer-facing features and UI experiences.

• Continuously evaluate and improve the architecture and implementation of our platform.

• Contribute to the overall usability, reliability, and scalability of the platform.

What you bring to the role:

• 8+ years of overall Software engineering experience, including experience in mentoring junior engineers.

• Proven experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in either Node.js/Golang/Python on a Kubernetes production environment.

• Experience in writing front-end applications in React.js.

• Experience with SQL databases (Postgres/MySQL).

• Solid understanding of CI/CD tools like CircleCI and experience integrating them in a Kubernetes environment on any of the major cloud providers.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to find a middle ground.

• Experience communicating technical concepts through the use of architectural diagrams.

• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerization, and cloud-native application development.

• Write and maintain documentation around key systems and processes.

• Participate in an on-call rotation with some of our largest customers.

• Perform root cause analysis during incidents and document results in the form of post-mortems.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators.

• Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

• Experience with at least one of the following languages: NodeJS, Go.

• Familiarity with Apache Airflow. Experience with OpenShift and the Red Hat marketplace.

• Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana and ELK stacks.

The estimated salary for this role ranges from $180,000 - $210,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. This range is merely an estimate; actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

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