Astronomer · 2 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, Dataplane Management
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $210K/yrAstronomer 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®. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Data Plane Management team, focusing on efficiently operating and developing new features for the cloud compute foundation that hosts customer Airflow deployments.
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Responsibilities
Own key endpoints and features of our flagship product, Astro, to extend our offering to more complex customer networking options
Work across domains to develop diverse features for our core infrastructure (ie: workload identity, multitenancy, cross region disaster recovery, cloud resource management, private network access)
Evolve our fleet orchestration system to enable us to safely make (and roll back) changes across our infrastructure, and to enable us to scale from the 500+ clusters we have now to thousands in the future
Gain experience working in a multi-cloud environment by working with managed Kubernetes offerings and network/auth primitives from AWS, Azure, and GCP
Deepen your operational knowledge of Kubernetes-based workloads by managing the data pipelines of many of the largest companies in the world
Qualification
Required
Experience building and operating SaaS infrastructure, or experience managing a large scale internal compute platform
Software engineering expertise with Golang, or similar languages with a desire to learn Golang
A passion for reliability and operational excellence. A low tolerance for toil, alert fatigue, and other nonsense
Production experience with a container based orchestration system (Kubernetes preferred, but not essential)
Understanding of how to build with security and isolation in mind, so that Astronomer's managed platform can securely integrate with any customer environment and ensure strict isolation between customer workloads
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in working with a globally distributed team in delivery
Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability
Experience as part of an on-call rotation - this role involves periodic on-call for the services and system we own
Preferred
Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers, with a ‘single tenant data plane' model
Programmatically administered Kubernetes in multiple clouds
Experience designing systems for resiliency, scale and security. A familiarity with Non-Abstract Systems design is a major plus
A passion for finding and addressing inefficiencies in code, infrastructure costs, tooling and processes
Experience with our particular tech stack components and technologies (deep breath): Calico/Azure CNI/Cilium, PostgreSQL/Aurora/CloudSQL/etc, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/ Chronosphere, Splunk, Istio, Karpenter, Falco
Experience of the innards and quirks of AWS, GCP and Azure
Experience with Apache Airflow
Benefits
Equity component
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
Astronomer
Astronomer is a data orchestration platform built on Apache Airflow, enabling teams to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$377.8MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesInsight PartnersSierra Ventures
2025-05-01Series D· $93M
2022-03-23Series C· $213M
2021-01-29Series B· $43.6M
Leadership Team
Pete DeJoy
CEO, Co-Founder
Steven Hillion
VP, Data & ML
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