Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Systems
AstronomerResponsibilities
- Design and own the architecture of systems that stand up, scale, and manage the infrastructure running Airflow, including implementation, testing, documentation, and rollout.
- Design and evolve REST/gRPC APIs for infrastructure lifecycle management, customer-facing UI, and programmatic integrations.
- Own networking and security, including authentication, authorization, secure communication, CVE remediation, image hardening, and Pod Security Standards compliance.
- Architect metrics, logs, and traces that provide end-to-end request observability across service and network boundaries.
- Participate in on-call rotation, diagnose and resolve incidents, complete post-mortems, and track remediation work.
- Mentor engineers and improve design reviews, code reviews, testing, and operational rigor.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering, with 8+ years typical for Staff-level hiring.
- Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience, including building custom Operators and CRDs and managing Helm-based deployments.
- Experience designing REST or gRPC APIs with data modeling, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Strong fundamentals in networking, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and security.
- Proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript, or demonstrated ability to learn new languages quickly.
- Practical experience designing or building observability and distributed tracing for multi-layer systems.
- Ability to lead technical design across teams and communicate trade-offs to engineers and stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers and improving team-wide engineering practices.
- Experience with multi-tenant control planes, air-gapped or highly regulated environments, Apache Airflow internals, or incident command and on-call leadership is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity component and comprehensive benefits package are provided.
- The role is hybrid.
- The position is full-time.
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About Astronomer
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, AI, and software to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified orchestration 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 900 of the world’s leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io Apache® and Apache Airflow® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. No endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.