Astronomer

2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Lead the design and implementation of Astronomer’s platform infrastructure at scale. Build foundational systems across multi-cloud environments, ensuring reliability, low latency, and clear documentation. Influence architecture decisions and write code to prove them out, shaping Astro, Observe, and the IDE for enterprise customers.

Location: London

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Blaze a Trail: Own and develop our platform infrastructure strategy, with the sponsorship and responsibility to match. Map out what we need, make the calls, and own the outcomes.
•Be an Owner: Be directly involved in deciding what we work on and how we work on it. Make promises, and keep them.
•Do Sensible Things: Make principled build vs. buy assessments and advocate for the right tools for the right job — not the fashionable ones, not the ones already in the estate just because they’re there.
•Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records for systems and processes. Participate in architectural forums and make principled, open decisions that the rest of the organisation can learn from and hold us to.
•Lead the technical direction for production platform systems, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

Key Requirements

•Distributed systems depth with practical experience in failure modes, backpressure and graceful degradation.
•Kubernetes at operator depth with real production load experience.
•Strong Go proficiency with production-grade Go code.
•Multi-cloud design decisions across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, beyond just using managed services.
•Experience defining requirements and driving technology choices across an engineering organization.

Experience:SaaSDataOpsCloud

Skills:GoKubernetesAWSGCPAzureApache Airflow

Tech Stack:GoKubernetesAWSGCPAzureApache Airflow

Company Brief

Astronomer

Develops Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale, helping enterprises operationalize analytics and production AI.

Industry: Data Infrastructure

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Funding: Series D

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 2018

Glassdoor: 3.9

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Astronomer

2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 3 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: London

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Software Engineering

Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

•Blaze a Trail: Own and develop our platform infrastructure strategy, with the sponsorship and responsibility to match. Map out what we need, make the calls, and own the outcomes.
•Be an Owner: Be directly involved in deciding what we work on and how we work on it. Make promises, and keep them.
•Do Sensible Things: Make principled build vs. buy assessments and advocate for the right tools for the right job — not the fashionable ones, not the ones already in the estate just because they’re there.
•Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records for systems and processes. Participate in architectural forums and make principled, open decisions that the rest of the organisation can learn from and hold us to.
•Lead the technical direction for production platform systems, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

Key Requirements

•Distributed systems depth with practical experience in failure modes, backpressure and graceful degradation.
•Kubernetes at operator depth with real production load experience.
•Strong Go proficiency with production-grade Go code.
•Multi-cloud design decisions across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, beyond just using managed services.
•Experience defining requirements and driving technology choices across an engineering organization.

Experience:SaaSDataOpsCloud

Skills:GoKubernetesAWSGCPAzureApache Airflow

Tech Stack:GoKubernetesAWSGCPAzureApache Airflow

Company Brief

Astronomer

Develops Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale, helping enterprises operationalize analytics and production AI.

Industry: Data Infrastructure

Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)

Growth: Scaleup

Funding: Series D

Headquarters: New York, United States

Founded: 2018

Glassdoor: 3.9

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor