Astronomer is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Airflow Infra team to build the critical layer that connects the open-source Airflow ecosystem to enterprise-grade, massively scalable cloud infrastructure, aiming to make data orchestration faster, more reliable, and easier to manage for global organizations.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python, Golang and experience with Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of and experience with integrating with RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
- Comfortable with testing frameworks, such as pytest.
- Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.
- Experience with Apache Airflow
- Experience working on a SaaS product
Responsibilities
- Engineer backend services with high quality, maintainable and well tested code.
- Optimize the performance, reliability and scalability of existing backend services.
- Investigate, prototype and propose ideas to improve user experience.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.
- Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot and debug to solve incidents.
- Regularly engage in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
- Partner with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve.
Other
- Partner with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in creating technical specifications.
- A passion for reliability and operational excellence.
- Ability to scope work and coordinate cross-functionally to address risks and ensure successful delivery.
- Ability to adjust to change and rapid pace of development.
- Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.
