Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Astronomer
London
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Python","Go","Kubernetes","CI/CD","Observability","SLI/SLO"]

Senior Software Engineer in Astronomer’s Platform Engineering team, driving the design, testing, and deployment of a high-scale production platform powering Astro, Observe, and IDE products. Own and implement end-to-end CI/CD in a cloud-native, PaaS environment, collaborate across the company to define production systems and standards, influence platform reliability, incident response, and comprehensive internal documentation for scalable data pipelines and analytics tooling.

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Astronomer
Astronomer
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer in Astronomer’s Platform Engineering team, driving the design, testing, and deployment of a high-scale production platform powering Astro, Observe, and IDE products. Own and implement end-to-end CI/CD in a cloud-native, PaaS environment, collaborate across the company to define production systems and standards, influence platform reliability, incident response, and comprehensive internal documentation for scalable data pipelines and analytics tooling.
Location: London
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Make high-quality, data-driven and experience-driven decisions on how we build this and the next generation of our production platform, then deliver the results.
  • •Own and build how we test, build and deploy code in a high-scale PaaS environment.
  • •Collaborate across the whole company on how we design production systems, set standards and make technology choices for new and existing products, and how these fit together.
  • •Deliver results - we routinely “change the wheels on the bus while it’s moving”, in a predictable, safe and reliable way.
  • •Be at the forefront of how we work together as a Platform Engineering team.
  • •Blaze a Trail: Build out the Platform/Reliability practice for the company – reports to the VP of Reliability.
  • •Be an Owner: Be directly involved in decision-making on what we work on and how we work on it.
  • •Do Sensible Things: Determine how our platform works, participate in incident management and ensure sensible practices as the platform evolves.
  • •Garage Door Open: Create and maintain internal documentation for systems and processes.

Key Requirements

  • •Proficient in Python and Golang with in-depth Kubernetes experience (CKA or equivalent)
  • •Experience with observability, SLIs/SLOs, and defining/tracking reliability metrics
  • •Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with a globally distributed team
  • •Commitment to reliability and operational excellence with low toil
  • •Experience with software development best practices (code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation, debugging)
Experience:CloudSaaSPlatform engineering
Skills:PythonGoKubernetesCI/CDObservabilitySLI/SLO
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonGolangKubernetesCI/CDCircleCIPrometheusSplunkIstioPlaywrightKarpenterGithub ActionsAWSGCPAzure

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
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