Astronomer is looking to solve highly complex technology problems through inventive algorithms and world-class practices around scale for their R&D organization, specifically by building out a world-class Observability team to deliver data observability capabilities that provide customers visibility, reliability, and actionable insights into their data pipelines and products.
Requirements
- Strong technical experience building complex distributed systems, preferably with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, SQL/OLAP databases, and stream processing.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, and scaling production infrastructure.
- Experience building or scaling data observability products.
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestrators.
- Background in observability, monitoring, or infrastructure at scale (e.g., Datadog, Honeycomb, or similar).
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the technical design, architecture, and implementation of Astronomer’s observability platform.
- Build scalable, reliable, and performant features that provide visibility into customer data pipelines.
- Write high-quality, maintainable code while following best practices in testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
- Participate in code reviews, mentor peers, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.
- Help improve and evolve the observability platform’s tooling, infrastructure, and processes.
Other
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively across teams.
- Focus on delivering customer value through thoughtful technical solutions.
- Enthusiasm for contributing to a healthy, inclusive engineering culture and supporting the growth of teammates.
- LI-Hybrid
