Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Systems

Responsibilities

• Design and own the architecture of systems that stand up, scale, configure, and manage the infrastructure running Airflow.
• Lead infrastructure efforts end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, documentation, and rollout.
• Design and evolve REST and gRPC APIs for infrastructure lifecycle management, including data modeling, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Own networking and security posture, including authentication, authorization, secure communication, CVE remediation, image hardening, and Pod Security Standards compliance.
• Architect observability and traceability across service and network boundaries using metrics, logs, and distributed traces.
• Participate in the on-call rotation, diagnose and resolve incidents, contribute to post-mortems, and track remediation work.
• Mentor engineers and improve design, code review, testing, and operational practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering, with a history of owning production systems at scale.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, including custom Operators, CRDs, and Helm-based deployments.
• Experience designing REST or gRPC APIs for customer-facing interfaces or programmatic integrations, including versioning and backward compatibility.
• Strong fundamentals in networking, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and security.
• Proficiency in Go and/or TypeScript, or the ability to learn new programming languages quickly.
• Practical experience designing or building observability and distributed tracing for multi-layer systems.
• Ability to lead technical design across teams and communicate trade-offs to engineers and stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving team-wide practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing or operating multi-tenant control planes.
• Experience shipping software into air-gapped or highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow internals or other data orchestration platforms.
• Incident command or on-call leadership experience.

Compensation and Benefits

• Estimated total compensation: $200,000–$300,000, based on leveling and geography.
• Equity component and comprehensive benefits package.