Astronomer
DataOps
StaffSoftwareEngineer,PlatformInfrastructure
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“Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure at Astronomer. Skills: Platform Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, Go. Develop platform infrastructure strategy. Make build vs. buy assessments”
What You'll Achieve.
Shape what Astronomer's products are capable of
Industry & Context.
Reasoned argument for failure modes; Failure cascades; Backpressure; Graceful degradation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Distributed systems depth, Kubernetes at operator depth, Go proficiency, Multi-cloud experience, Experience defining requirements, Written and verbal communication
Nice to Have
Experience with storage primitives, Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product, Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration systems
What You'll Do.
Develop platform infrastructure strategy
Make build vs. buy assessments
Create internal documentation
Participate in architectural forums
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Make colleagues' lives better; Worked effectively in globally-distributed team
Communication Scope
Written and verbal communication; Write a design doc; Write a postmortem
Full Job Description
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io http://www.astronomer.io. ABOUT THIS ROLE: Astronomer’s products run on a complex, multi-cloud platform — and the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of that platform is what we’re actively investing in. The work ahead on our Platform team isn’t about managing data or curating pipelines; it’s about building the foundational systems that everything else runs on — the kind of systems where the failure modes matter, the latency budgets are real, and getting it wrong has visible consequences for hundreds of enterprise customers. We’re looking for a Staff+-level engineer who has built production platform systems at scale before — not just consumed them. You’ve designed systems under load, reasoned carefully about failure, and made your colleagues’ lives better by giving them something solid and well-understood to build on top of. You write strategy documents and then write the code that proves them out. You’ve been the person who made the call, and lived with the consequences. This is a foundational role at a consequential moment: your work will directly shape what Astronomer’s products — Astro, Observe, and our IDE — are capable of over the next several years. This role reports directly to the VP responsible for delivering these platforms reliably. WHAT YOU GET TO DO: Astronomer has a healthy and complex infrastructure estate spanning multiple cloud providers, a mix of managed and self-hosted systems, and an increasingly ambitious set of requirements as our products evolve. We have
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