Astronomer
Senior Software Engineer, Platform
$210K–$250K
New York City · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
About the job
Build and operate Astronomer’s production platform, improving how its products are tested, built, deployed, and run reliably at scale.
What you'll do
- Own and build testing, build, and deployment systems for a high-scale PaaS environment.
- Collaborate across the company on production-system design, standards, and technology choices.
- Help develop platform reliability practices, participate in incident management, and maintain internal documentation.
What they ask for
- Strong experience in non-abstract systems design and implementation.
- Strong proficiency in Python and Golang, and in-depth Kubernetes experience (CKA or equivalent or greater).
- Experience with observability, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking.
- Strong communication skills and experience delivering work with a globally distributed team.
Nice to have
- Experience with SaaS/PaaS products across multiple cloud providers.
- Experience with the listed stack, cloud-provider technologies, on-call rotations, or Apache Airflow.
Pay
$210,000 - $250,000 USD total compensation
Tools
Python, Golang, Kubernetes, CircleCI, Chronosphere (Prometheus), Splunk, Bazel, Istio
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