Staff Software Engineer - Platform

Astronomer designed Astro, an industry-leading data orchestration and observability platform for data teams. Powered by Airflow, Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and drive data-driven applications.

We’re a globally-distributed and rapidly growing venture-backed team of learners, innovators and collaborators. Our mission is to empower data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, AI, and software to life.  As a member of our team, you will be at the forefront of the industry as we strive to deliver the world's data. 

Your background may be unconventional; as long as you have the essential qualifications, we encourage you to apply. While having "bonus" qualifications makes for a strong candidate, Astronomer values diverse experiences. Many of us at Astronomer haven't followed traditional career paths, and we welcome it if yours hasn't either.

About this role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Astronomer you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation and deployment of our flagship enterprise.

Our R&D team is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience in managing Apache Airflow at scale. As a leading player in the industry, we welcome an experienced Software Engineer to work on the platform team of our flagship Enterprise product, Astronomer Software.

The team is responsible for maintaining and developing the API services, authentication, authorization, logging, observability, and alerting frameworks, common UI components, and the general reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the platform. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to scale and deliver exceptional value to our customers.

What you get to do:

• Lead design and development of core platform applications and services using Node.js and React.js.

• Architect, build, and maintain highly scalable and resilient applications on Kubernetes clusters, leveraging Helm for deployments and management.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, DevOps, and QA, to deliver high-quality features and improvements.

• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions to support a robust and scalable platform.

• Mentor and support team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

• Ensure adherence to best practices in code quality, testing, and documentation.

• Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enforce coding standards.

• Identify and resolve complex technical challenges, implementing robust solutions for scalability, performance, and reliability.

What you bring to the role:

• 8+ years of overall software engineering experience, including experience managing and leading engineering teams or mentoring junior engineers.

• Proven experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in Node.js and React.js on a Kubernetes production environment.

• Experience with distributed systems

• Experience with SQL databases (Postgres/MySQL)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to find middle ground.

• Experience communicating technical concepts through the use of architectural diagrams.

• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerization, and cloud-native application development.

• Solid understanding of CI/CD tools like CircleCI and experience integrating them in a Kubernetes environment on any of the major cloud providers

• Write and maintain documentation around key systems and processes.

• Participate in an on-call rotation with some of our largest customers.

• Perform root cause analysis during incidents and document results in the form of post-mortems.
  

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators

• Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

• Experience with at least one of the following languages: Go.

• Experience with Openshift and the Red Hat marketplace.

• Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana and ELK stacks.

At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  Astronomer is a remote-first company.