Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
Astronomer2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own and develop the platform infrastructure strategy, make architectural calls, and own resulting outcomes.
- Design, build, and operate foundational platform systems across a complex multi-cloud infrastructure estate.
- Make principled build-versus-buy assessments and advocate for appropriate technology choices.
- Define requirements and guide how engineering work is prioritized and executed.
- Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and architecture decision records.
- Participate in architectural forums and communicate open, principled technical decisions.
- Write production Go code that validates and implements platform strategy.
Requirements
- Deep practical experience designing and operating distributed production systems at scale, including consistency and availability tradeoffs, failure cascades, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
- Operator-level Kubernetes experience, including operating clusters under real production load and understanding scheduler and control-loop behavior.
- Strong proficiency in Go and experience building and shipping production systems with it.
- Production multi-cloud experience making architectural decisions across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
- Experience defining requirements and driving technology choices across an engineering organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including design documentation and postmortems, and effectiveness in globally distributed teams.
- Preferred: system-level experience with storage primitives and tradeoffs among relational stores, object stores, and other options.
- Preferred: experience with SaaS/PaaS products spanning multiple cloud providers.
- Preferred: familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration systems.
Tech Stack
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.