Principal Software Engineer (APC)
Astronomer2 months ago
Base Salary
$277k - $390k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end definition, design, and implementation of resilient control plane and data plane services.
- Design an extensible platform API, including data modeling, versioning, backward compatibility, REST or gRPC interfaces, and customer integrations.
- Architect telemetry covering metrics, logs, traces, platform services, and the health and status of provisioned Airflow instances.
- Ensure services, images, dependencies, and configurations operate across connected private clouds and zero-egress or air-gapped environments.
- Translate enterprise infrastructure needs into execution roadmaps and serve as the technical face of the engineering team.
- Lead design reviews, contribute critical code, promote operational excellence, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience with Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal-level experience in enterprise infrastructure, DBaaS, or private cloud organizations.
- Proven experience building production-grade infrastructure control planes and designing APIs for programmatic workflows and user interfaces.
- Practical experience designing and implementing observability stacks using metrics, logs, and traces in isolated environments.
- Strong Kubernetes operational and architectural knowledge, including custom Operators and CRDs, Helm deployments, and the Kubernetes API.
- Hands-on systems design experience across AWS, GCP, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and bare-metal on-premises infrastructure.
- Expert software development skills in languages such as Go, Python, or TypeScript, with knowledge of distributed state stores, concurrency, and network security patterns.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including authoring technical one-pagers and RFCs and presenting to executives and enterprise clients.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, align with product and executive stakeholders, mentor senior engineers, and contribute high-leverage code.
Benefits
- Equity component and comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid work arrangement
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSAzureConsulGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanagRPCHelmKubernetesOpenShiftPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonTypeScript
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.