Astronomer is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on the platform team of their flagship Enterprise product, Astro Private Cloud. This team is responsible for maintaining and developing the API services, authentication, authorization, logging, observability, and alerting frameworks, common UI components, and the general reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the platform. The goal is to scale and deliver exceptional value to customers.
Requirements
- Proven experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in either 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 on any of the major cloud providers.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerization, and cloud-native application development.
- Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators.
- Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana and ELK stacks.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and vision of Astro Private Cloud’s architecture and components across authentication and authorization, core API services, logging, metrics, and observability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement, and iterate on the features used by the engineering org as a whole.
- 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 usability, reliability, and scalability of the platform.
- Write and maintain documentation around key systems and processes.
- Perform root cause analysis during incidents and document results in the form of post-mortems.
Other
- 8+ years of overall Software engineering experience, including experience in mentoring junior engineers.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to find a middle ground.
- Experience communicating technical concepts through the use of architectural diagrams.
- Participate in an on-call rotation with some of our largest customers.
- The estimated salary for this role ranges from $180,000 - $210,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package.
