Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Astronomer

full-time

Posted on: 9/26/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $180,000 - $210,000 per year

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About the role

Own and build how we test, build and deploy code in a high-scale PaaS environment
Collaborate across the company on production system design, standards, and technology choices
Deliver results while safely evolving production systems ("change the wheels on the bus while it’s moving")
Participate in incident management and determine sensible operational practices
Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes
Help build out the Platform/Reliability practice and report to the VP of Reliability
Be directly involved in decision-making, estimate work, and keep commitments

Strong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design and implementation
Strong proficiency in Python and Golang
In-depth experience with Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent)
Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience working with a globally distributed team
Passion for reliability and operational excellence; low tolerance for toil
Ability to estimate scope of work accurately and coordinate with stakeholders
Experience with software development best practices: code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation, debugging
Proactive ownership and accountability
Periodic on-call participation (role involves periodic on-call for services owned)
Experience working on SaaS/PaaS products across multiple cloud providers (bonus)
Experience with CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, GitHub Actions (bonus)
Experience with AWS, GCP and Azure (bonus)
Experience with Apache Airflow (bonus)
Authorized to work in the United States (application asks this as a required field)