Remote Senior Software Engineer - Platform, Hyderabad

Description:

• Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®.
• Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications.
• The company is trusted by more than 700 of the world's leading enterprises, allowing businesses to do more with their data.
• As a Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation and deployment of the flagship enterprise product.
• The R&D team is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience in managing Apache Airflow at scale.
• The platform team is responsible for maintaining and developing API services, authentication, authorization, logging, observability, and alerting frameworks, as well as common UI components.
• Your contributions will directly impact the ability to scale and deliver exceptional value to customers.
• The work location for this role is in Hyderabad.

Requirements:

• You must have 8+ years of overall software engineering experience, including experience in mentoring junior engineers.
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in either Node.js, Golang, or Python on a Kubernetes production environment is required.
• Experience in writing front-end applications in React.js is necessary.
• You should have experience with SQL databases such as Postgres or MySQL.
• A solid understanding of CI/CD tools like CircleCI and experience integrating them in a Kubernetes environment on any of the major cloud providers is essential.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required, with the ability to find a middle ground.
• Experience communicating technical concepts through the use of architectural diagrams is necessary.
• A strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerization, and cloud-native application development is required.
• You must be able to write and maintain documentation around key systems and processes.
• Participation in an on-call rotation with some of the largest customers is expected.
• You should be able to perform root cause analysis during incidents and document results in the form of post-mortems.

Benefits:

• Astronomer values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer, not discriminating based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• The company operates as a remote-first organization, providing flexibility in work arrangements.