Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Overview

Senior Software Engineer on Astronomer’s Core Platform team, working on core systems behind Astro’s Public API, authentication, billing, and alerting frameworks.

What you'll do

• Contribute to development of Astro Platform architecture and components.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and iterate on product features.
• Work with front end developers, product management, and customers to deliver customer-facing APIs and infrastructure technology.
• Improve platform usability, reliability, and scalability.

What you'll need

• Track record building performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative mindset.
• Experience developing services with Go and orchestrating dependencies on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with SQL databases, including Postgres (Spanner experience is also a plus).
• Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and non-abstract design.
• Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini) to accelerate development.

Nice to have

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators.
• Experience with business functions like billing and authentication.

Details

• Work mode: Hybrid.