Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Dublin, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

A Senior Software Engineer will join the Platform Engineering team to design, build, test, and deploy production infrastructure. The role involves making decisions on the next generation of the production platform and collaborating on production system design.

What you will do

Make decisions on how to build the next generation of the production platform.
Own and build how to test, build and deploy code in a high-scale PaaS environment.
Collaborate across the company on designing production systems and setting technology standards.
Deliver results in a predictable, safe and reliable way.
Work on building out the Platform/Reliability practice.
Participate in decision-making on work scope and methods.
Participate in incident management and determine sensible practices.
Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes.

Required qualifications

Strong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design and implementation.
Strong proficiency in Python and Golang.
In-depth experience with Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent or greater).
Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
Experience in working with a globally distributed team in delivery.
Ability to estimate the scope of work accurately and coordinate with stakeholders.
Experience with software development best practices, such as code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.

Nice to have

Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers.
Experience with CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio, Playwright, Karpenter, Github [Actions].
Experience of the innards and quirks of AWS, GCP and (particularly) Azure.
Participated in an on-call rotation.
Experience with Apache Airflow.

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 mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life.