Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

Astronomer
New York, London, Ireland
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 275,000 - 377,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Written communication","Verbal communication","Reasoning","Systems thinking"]

Build and evolve foundational platform infrastructure that underpins Astronomer’s multi-cloud DataOps products. Own platform infrastructure strategy, make key build-vs-buy and technology choices, and deliver production systems designed for real failure modes, latency budgets, and operational maturity. Work hands-on across managed and self-hosted infrastructure, contribute architectural documentation and forums, and collaborate within a globally distributed team.

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Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Build and evolve foundational platform infrastructure that underpins Astronomer’s multi-cloud DataOps products. Own platform infrastructure strategy, make key build-vs-buy and technology choices, and deliver production systems designed for real failure modes, latency budgets, and operational maturity. Work hands-on across managed and self-hosted infrastructure, contribute architectural documentation and forums, and collaborate within a globally distributed team.
Location: New York, London, Ireland
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and develop platform infrastructure strategy, map requirements, make calls, and deliver outcomes.
  • •Be an owner in deciding what the team works on and how it works, making and keeping promises.
  • •Perform principled build-vs-buy assessments and advocate for appropriate tools.
  • •Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records for systems and processes, and participate in architectural forums.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 275,000 - 377,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Deep production distributed-systems experience, including failure modes, consistency/availability tradeoffs, failure cascades, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
  • •Operator-level Kubernetes knowledge, including what happens inside the scheduler/control loop and operating clusters under real load.
  • •Strong Go proficiency, with experience building and shipping production systems in Go.
  • •Multi-cloud architectural decision-making across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, evaluating tradeoffs and living with outcomes in production.
  • •Experience defining requirements and driving technology choices across an engineering organization, not just executing them.
Experience:Multi-cloudSaaS/PaaSStorage systemsWorkflow orchestration
Skills:Written communicationVerbal communicationReasoningSystems thinking
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
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