Senior Software Engineer, Platform
Astronomer3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Make data-driven and experience-driven decisions about the current and next generation of the production platform and deliver the results.
- Own and build systems for testing, building, and deploying code in a high-scale PaaS environment.
- Collaborate across the company on production system design, standards, technology choices, and product integration.
- Deliver platform changes predictably, safely, and reliably in a continuously operating environment.
- Help build the company’s Platform and Reliability practice on a small, growing team.
- Participate in platform decision-making and determine how the platform should evolve.
- Participate in incident management and establish sensible operational practices.
- Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes.
- Participate periodically in on-call rotations for owned services.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing and implementing non-abstract systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and Golang and in-depth Kubernetes experience, with CKA or equivalent experience preferred.
- Experience with observability principles and technologies, including defining and tracking SLIs and SLOs.
- Experience working with globally distributed teams and strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Passion for reliability and operational excellence, with a focus on reducing toil.
- Ability to estimate work accurately, coordinate with stakeholders, address risks, and deliver projects successfully.
- Experience with software development practices including code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation, and debugging.
- Proactive ownership and accountability in identifying and addressing issues.
- Bonus: experience with SaaS or PaaS products across multiple cloud providers.
- Bonus: experience with CircleCI, Chronosphere, Prometheus, Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, and GitHub Actions.
- Bonus: experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure, particularly Azure.
- Bonus: Apache Airflow experience and participation in an on-call rotation.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowAWSAzureBazelCircleCIGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformIstioKubernetesPrometheusPythonSplunk
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.