Senior Software Engineer, Airflow Infrastructure - NYC

About the role

Astronomer is redefining how companies run Apache Airflow at scale. Our R&D organization is home to some of the most innovative minds in cloud infrastructure and open-source software. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Airflow Infra team, part of Astro, our flagship cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Engineer backend services with high quality, maintainable and well tested code.
• Partner with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve.
• Regularly engage in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Optimize the performance, reliability and scalability of existing backend services.
• Investigate, prototype and propose ideas to improve user experience.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.
• Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot and debug to solve incidents.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Golang.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of and experience with integrating with RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
• Comfortable with testing frameworks, such as pytest.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in creating technical specifications.
• A passion for reliability and operational excellence.
• Ability to scope work and coordinate cross-functionally to address risks and ensure successful delivery.
• Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.
• Ability to adjust to change and rapid pace of development.
• Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.

Bonus points

• If you have experience with Apache Airflow.