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Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.\nAbout this role:\nAt Astronomer, we’re redefining how companies run Apache Airflow at scale. Our R&D organization is home to some of the most innovative minds in cloud infrastructure and open-source software. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You get to go in at the ground level of how our production infrastructure is designed, built, tested and deployed. Your work will directly influence how we build Astro, Observe and our IDE product, as well as how global organizations orchestrate data pipelines at scale-making them faster, more reliable, and easier to manage. If you’re driven by impact, excited by scale, and ready to work on the kind of infrastructure challenges that push the boundaries of what’s possible in cloud-native systems, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.\nWhat you get to do:\nMake high-quality, data-driven and experience-driven decisions on how we build this and the next generation of our production platform, then deliver the results.\nOwn and build how we test, build and deploy code in a high-scale PaaS environment.\n\nCollaborate across the whole company on how we design production systems, set standards and make technology choices for new and existing products, and how these fit together.\n\nDeliver results - we routinely “change the wheels on the bus while it’s moving”, in a predictable, safe and reliable way.\n\nBe at the forefront of how we work together as a Platform Engineering team.\nBlaze a Trail: Work on a small but growing team on building out the Platform/Reliability practice for the company - this role reports directly to the VP of Reliability.\n\nBe an Owner: Be directly involved in decision-making on what we work on, as well as how we work on it. Make promises, and keep them.\n\nDo Sensible Things: Be directly involved in determining how our platform works. Participate in incident management and determine sensible practices as the platform evolves.\n\nGarage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.\n\nWhat you bring to the role:\nStrong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design and implementation.\n\nStrong proficiency in Python, Golang and in-depth experience with Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent or greater).\n\nExperience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking.\n\nStrong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in working with a globally distributed team in delivery.\n\nA passion for reliability and operational excellence. A low tolerance for toil and other nonsense.\n\nAbility to estimate the scope of work accurately and coordinate with stakeholders to address risks and ensure successful project delivery.\n\nExperience with (and ideally strong opinions on) software development best practices, such as code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.\n\nProactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.\n\nBonus points if you have:\nExperience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers.\n\nExperience with our particular tech stack components and technologies (deep breath): CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, Github [Actions] …\n\nExperience of the innards and quirks of AWS, GCP and (particularly) Azure.\n\nParticipated in an on-call rotation - this role involves periodic on-call for the services we own.\n\nExperience with Apache Airflow.\n\nThe estimated total compensation for this role ranges from $168,000 - $230,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. 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