Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Astronomer, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

London

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Senior Software Engineer, Platform role at Astronomer, Inc. focused on building and scaling the production infrastructure for Astro, Observe, and IDE products, directly impacting how global organizations orchestrate data pipelines at scale.
• Day-to-day responsibilities include owning and building test, build, and deployment systems in a high-scale PaaS environment, making data-driven decisions on platform evolution, collaborating across teams to set technology standards, and participating in incident management and reliability practices.
• The Platform Engineering team is part of Astronomer’s R&D organization, working on cloud infrastructure and open-source software at scale, reporting directly to the VP of Reliability, with a focus on reliability, ownership, and building internal documentation.
• In this role, you will learn and achieve mastery in cloud-native systems design, gain deep expertise in Kubernetes and observability, influence platform reliability practices, and grow as a technical leader in a globally distributed, high-impact engineering environment.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design and implementation
• Strong proficiency in Python, Golang and in-depth experience with Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent or greater)
• Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in working with a globally distributed team in delivery
• Experience with software development best practices, such as code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work on the kind of infrastructure challenges that push the boundaries of what’s possible in cloud-native systems
• Direct involvement in decision-making on what we work on, as well as how we work on it
• Be at the forefront of how we work together as a Platform Engineering team, including blazing a trail on building out the Platform/Reliability practice
• Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility
• Participate in incident management and determine sensible practices as the platform evolves

Skills & Technologies

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Senior

Onsite

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About Astronomer, Inc.

Astronomer, Inc. provides Apache Airflow as a managed cloud service and enterprise platform. The company maintains the open-source workflow orchestration project, offers commercial support, and delivers a control plane that lets data teams deploy, monitor, and scale directed acyclic graphs across Kubernetes clusters. Its product suite includes Astro, a fully hosted Airflow environment with role-based access, CI/CD hooks, and usage observability. Customers use the software to schedule Python and SQL data pipelines, connect on-premise and cloud databases, and ensure reliable data delivery for analytics and machine-learning workloads. Astronomer is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and serves global enterprises.

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