Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Make 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.
• Own and build how we test, build and deploy code in a high-scale PaaS environment.
• Collaborate 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.
• Deliver results - we routinely change the wheels on the bus while it's moving, in a predictable, safe and reliable way.
• Be at the forefront of how we work together as a Platform Engineering team.
• Blaze 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.
• Be 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.
• Do Sensible Things: Be directly involved in determining how our platform works. Participate in incident management and determine sensible practices as the platform evolves.
• Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.

Benefits

• Remote friendly, work from anywhere
• If you’re in a city with an office, it’s there (and stocked with snacks) when you need it
• Co-workers in over 40 states and 15 countries around the world
• Health, dental, and vision insurance at little to no cost for individuals, and at competitive rates for your dependents
• Disability and life insurance policies in case something happens
• Unlimited vacation - we do track vacation days and actively encourage people to take it (on average, Astronomers take 20 days of vacation per year)
• Parental leave
• Laptop of your choice, and a stipend to help with your work-from-home setup
• Monthly $170 pre-tax stipend intended to cover your cellphone and WiFi bills
• Yearly internal summit for all employees
• Regular access to conferences, workshops, and meetups in the ecosystem

Qualifications

• Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.
• Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in working with a globally distributed team in delivery.
• Bonus points if you have:
• Strong proficiency in Python, Golang and in-depth experience with Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent or greater).
• Ability to estimate the scope of work accurately and coordinate with stakeholders to address risks and ensure successful project delivery.
• Experience with (and ideally strong opinions on) software development best practices, such as code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.
• A passion for reliability and operational excellence. A low tolerance for toil and other nonsense.
• Strong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design and implementation.
• Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers.
• Experience with our particular tech stack components and technologies (deep breath): CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, Github Actions ...
• Participated in an on-call rotation - this role involves periodic on-call for the services we own.
• Experience of the innards and quirks of AWS, GCP and (particularly) Azure.
• Experience with Apache Airflow.