Remote Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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®.
• The company accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and power data-driven applications.
• Astronomer is trusted by more than 700 of the world's leading enterprises, allowing businesses to do more with their data.
• The role is for a Technical Lead / Staff Software Engineer to join the core Software team at Astronomer.
• Responsibilities include guiding technical direction, leading architectural efforts, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software delivery.
• The position involves system design, cross-functional planning, process optimization, mentoring engineers, and supporting their growth.
• The role focuses on distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and data platform tooling, particularly in Kubernetes.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 8+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills are required to work with cross-functional teams across time zones.
• Experience in driving technical strategy and conversations with customers, gathering feedback, and influencing product direction is essential.
• Extensive experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is necessary.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including hands-on experience testing systems running on K8s, is required.
• Proficiency in Golang and/or Python, and comfort with distributed systems, container orchestration, and CI/CD is needed.
• Candidates should have successfully led the design and execution of complex technical initiatives.
• A deep care for team dynamics, process quality, and helping engineers grow is important.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, asynchronous, remote-first environment is essential.
• A deep understanding of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Jenkins is required.
• Familiarity with logging and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Fluent Bit, and the ELK stack is necessary.
• A solid understanding of GitOps, Docker, and Helm charts is required.

Benefits:

• The estimated salary for this role ranges from $200,000 - $230,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component.
• A comprehensive benefits package is included.
• Astronomer values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer, promoting a remote-first work environment.