Astronomer
Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure - London
London, Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
This person will build foundational systems for a complex, multi-cloud platform. They will own platform infrastructure strategy and develop systems for control plane, CI/CD, observability, secrets, and networking.
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.
Required qualifications
- Distributed systems depth including consistency and availability tradeoffs, failure cascades, backpressure, and graceful degradation.
- 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 is trusted by more than 900 enterprises to empower data teams with software, analytics, and AI.