Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Astronomer empowers data teams through Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow, enabling reliable data products, analytics, and AI applications. The Senior Software Engineer will join the Core Platform team to build and maintain systems powering public APIs, authentication, billing, alerting, and Astro’s scalable, reliable infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of Astro Platform's architecture and components, through implementation and architectural participation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement and iterate on features used in our product and by the engineering org as a whole
- Work with front end developers, product management and customers to deliver customer facing features such as public facing APIs and the technology behind Astro’s own infrastructure
- Contribute to the overall platform usability, reliability, and scalability
Skills
- • A track record in building performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems
- • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative mindset
- • Experience in developing services with Go, interacting with dependencies and service orchestration on Kubernetes
- • Familiarity with SQL databases (Postgres, with Spanner experience also a plus)
- • Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and [NALSD](https://sre.google/workbook/non-abstract-design/)
- • Experience rationally leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini) to accelerate development — from prototyping and automated testing to code refactoring and documentation
- • Contributions to open source projects
- • Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators
- • Experience with critical business functions such as billing, authentication, and systems and practices around this area
Benefits
- An equity component
- A comprehensive benefits package
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