Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

London, United KingdomHybrid

Responsibilities

Map out what we need, make the calls, and own the outcomes. - Be an Owner: Be directly involved in deciding what we work on and how we work on it.

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®.
Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications.
We have a clear sense of where we need to go; we need the right person to figure out how to get there and then go build it.
You have a solid working model of how production systems fail — consistency and availability tradeoffs, failure cascades, backpressure, graceful degradation.
You’ve operated clusters under real load, not just deployed workloads onto them. - Strong Go proficiency.
The platform team writes production Go.
You’ve made considered architectural decisions across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure — not just consumed managed services, but evaluated tradeoffs between them and lived with those decisions in production. - Experience defining
You can write a design doc that changes minds, and a postmortem that makes the organisation smarter.
Experience with storage primitives at the system level — you’ve reasoned about when to reach for a relational store vs. an object store vs. something else, and you have real opinions informed by real failures. -
Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers. - Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration systems. #LI-Hybrid At Astronomer, we value diversity.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE: -
We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.