# Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

**Company:** [Astronomer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/astronomer)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $215k – $250k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Go, Distributed Systems, Multi-Cloud, AWS, GCP, Azure, Apache Airflow
**Posted:** 2026-02-13

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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