Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Astronomer11 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver the next generation of Astronomer's production platform.
- Own how code is tested, built, and deployed in a high-scale PaaS environment.
- Collaborate across the company on production-system design, technical standards, and technology choices.
- Build out the company's Platform and Reliability practice.
- Participate in incident management and improve platform reliability and operational practices.
- Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes.
- Estimate work, coordinate with stakeholders, address risks, and support successful project delivery.
- Participate in a periodic on-call rotation for owned services.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing and implementing non-abstract systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and Golang.
- In-depth Kubernetes experience, with CKA certification or equivalent or greater.
- Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in globally distributed teams.
- Passion for reliability, operational excellence, ownership, and accountability.
- Experience with software development practices including code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation, and debugging.
- Preferred experience with SaaS/PaaS products across multiple cloud providers.
- Preferred experience with CircleCI, Chronosphere, Prometheus, Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, and GitHub Actions.
- Preferred experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, and Apache Airflow.
Benefits
- The role includes an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSAzureBazelCircleCIGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformIstioKubernetesPrometheusPythonSplunk
Categories
About Astronomer
Astronomer builds Astro, a data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow that lets data teams run, monitor, and govern complex pipelines across clouds. It sells managed Airflow and enterprise tooling via subscriptions, backed by expert support and services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company focuses on enterprises operationalizing analytics and AI workloads.