Astronomer
Principal Software Engineer
New York City, Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and team mentorship for the core engineering group. You will architect a cloud-agnostic software platform that allows enterprise customers to provision, scale, and orchestrate Apache Airflow instances on-premises.
What you will do
- Define, design, and build core architecture for control plane and data plane services.
- Architect an extensible platform API including design, data modeling, and versioning.
- Design comprehensive platform observability for telemetry, metrics, logs, and traces.
- Architect for varied isolation levels including connected private clouds and zero-egress networks.
- Provide technical leadership by translating enterprise infrastructure needs into execution roadmaps.
- Mentor and elevate senior engineers through design reviews and code contributions.
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Track record at Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal level within enterprise infrastructure, DBaaS, or private cloud organization.
- Proven success building production-grade infrastructure control planes.
- Deep understanding of API design principles.
- Practical experience designing and implementing infrastructure observability stacks like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or Grafana.
- Solid operational knowledge and architectural understanding of Kubernetes.
- Practical experience building custom Kubernetes Operators (CRDs), managing Helm deployments, and working with the Kubernetes API.
- Hands-on systems design expertise involving isolated environments across AWS, GCP, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and bare-metal on-premise infrastructure.
- Expert-level software development skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
- Deep knowledge of distributed state stores such as Etcd, Consul, or PostgreSQL, concurrency, and network security patterns.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
About the company
Astronomer is the company behind Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow. It helps data teams bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life.