Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure - Dublin

The role

This person will build foundational systems and platform infrastructure for Astronomer's multi-cloud products. They will own the platform infrastructure strategy and develop the systems that support Astro, Observe, and the IDE.

What you will do

• Own and develop platform infrastructure strategy.
• Map out requirements, build the case, and bring affected teams along.
• Decide what to work on and how to work on it.
• Make build vs. buy assessments and advocate for tools.
• Create and maintain internal documentation and decision records.
• Participate in architectural forums and make open decisions.
• Write strategy documents and the code that proves them out.

Required qualifications

• Distributed systems depth grounded in practice.
• Kubernetes at operator depth.
• Strong Go proficiency.
• Multi-cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
• Track record of influence without authority.
• Generalist platform breadth in Kubernetes, CI/CD, builds and releases, observability, networking and secrets management.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Experience working in a globally-distributed team.

Nice to have

• Experience with storage primitives at the system level
• Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers
• Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration systems

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package

About the company

Astronomer is the company behind Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow. It empowers data teams to bring software, analytics, and AI to life.