Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

The role

You will work on core systems that power Astro's Public API, authentication, billing, and alerting frameworks. You will contribute to the development of Astro Platform's architecture and components to ensure reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

What you will do

• Contribute to the development of Astro Platform's architecture and components through implementation and architectural participation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements and implement features.
• Work with front end developers, product management and customers to deliver customer facing features.
• Contribute to the overall platform usability, reliability, and scalability.

Required qualifications

• Track record in building performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in developing services with Go, interacting with dependencies and service orchestration on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with SQL databases (Postgres).
• Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and NALSD.
• Experience rationally leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini) to accelerate development.

Nice to have

• Spanner experience
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators.
• Experience with critical business functions such as billing, authentication, and systems and practices around this area.

Benefits

• Equity component
• Comprehensive benefits package

About the company

Astronomer is the company behind Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow. It is trusted by more than 900 leading enterprises to manage data.