Senior Software Engineer - Platform - Remote

Overview

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 700 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data.

In Short

• Lead the design, development, and vision of Astronomer Software’s architecture and components.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements and implement features.
• Work with product management and customers to deliver customer-facing features and UI experiences.
• Continuously evaluate and improve the architecture and implementation of our platform.
• Contribute to the overall platform usability, reliability, and scalability.

Requirements

• 8+ years of overall Software engineering experience, including experience in mentoring junior engineers.
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in Node.js/Golang/Python on a Kubernetes production environment.
• Experience in writing front-end applications in React.js.
• Experience with SQL databases (Postgres/MySQL).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD tools like CircleCI and experience integrating them in a Kubernetes environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience communicating technical concepts through architectural diagrams.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-native application development.
• Write and maintain documentation around key systems and processes.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with some of our largest customers.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a leading DataOps platform.
• Collaborative and diverse work environment.
• Ability to impact the scalability and reliability of a major product.
• Flexible working arrangements as a remote-first company.