Senior Backend Software Engineer, Coaching
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Director of Engineering, Observability
Astronomer
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Vancouver • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$290,000 - CA$310,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AirflowApacheDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesPythonSQL
About the role
- Define and drive the technical strategy, roadmap, and execution for Astronomer’s observability platform.
- Lead, grow, and mentor a team of engineers with a focus on collaboration, innovation, and customer impact.
- Partner with product, design, and other engineering leaders to shape the future of observability and governance within Astronomer’s platform.
- Ensure the architecture, design, and implementation of the observability platform are scalable, reliable, and performant.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, including strong practices around code quality, testing, CI/CD, and operational rigor.
- Represent the Observability team internally and externally, helping align stakeholders around shared goals.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and managers in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- A track record of delivering complex distributed systems and scaling production infrastructure.
- Strong technical background, ideally with experience in Golang, Python, Kubernetes, SQL/OLAP databases, and stream processing.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
- A strong focus on customer value, bringing clarity and alignment between technical priorities and business outcomes.
- Passion for building healthy, inclusive teams and fostering growth in engineers.
- Bonus Points If You Have:
- 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).
Benefits
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Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
GolangPythonKubernetesSQLOLAP databasesstream processingdistributed systemsproduction infrastructuredata observabilityworkflow orchestrators
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationinfluencecustomer focusteam buildinginclusivityinnovationengineering excellence
