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AstronomerAstronomerNew York, NY

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

Staff engineer builds and owns scalable multi-cloud platform infrastructure for Astronomer's DataOps products. Requires deep Kubernetes/Go expertise, distributed systems knowledge, and multi-cloud experience to ensure reliability at enterprise scale.

215k – 250k
HybridDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own and develop platform infrastructure strategy, map out needs, make decisions, and own outcomes.
  • Decide what to work on and how, make promises, and deliver.
  • Conduct principled build vs. buy assessments and advocate for appropriate tools.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records.
  • Participate in architectural forums and make open, principled decisions.

Requirements

  • Depth in distributed systems, understanding failure modes, consistency/availability tradeoffs, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
  • Kubernetes expertise at operator level, including scheduler and control loop under load.
  • Strong proficiency in Go for building production systems.
  • Multi-cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) with architectural decisions in production.
  • Experience defining requirements and driving technology choices across engineering organization.
  • Strong written and verbal communication for design docs, postmortems, and global teams.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with storage primitives (relational vs. object stores).
  • Work on SaaS/PaaS products across multiple clouds.
  • Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration.

Compensation

  • Estimated salary: $215,000 - $250,000 based on leveling and geography, plus equity and comprehensive benefits.

Skills

KubernetesGoDistributed SystemsMulti-CloudAWSGCPAzureApache Airflow

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