Astronomer

1 month 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

Glassdoor: 3.9

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Astronomer

1 month ago

Senior Software Engineer, Platform

✓ 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: 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

Glassdoor: 3.9

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor