Principal Software Engineer
AstronomerData Orchestration company
New York, United States$277,000 - $390,000Lead
Bain Capital Ventures
Salesforce Ventures
Insight Partners
Meritech Capital
Venrock
J.P. Morgan
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead architecture and development of a self-contained, cloud-agnostic data platform for enterprise customers.
- •We are seeking an exceptional Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and team mentorship for our core engineering group.
- •In this role, you will be the primary architect and public face of a cloud-agnostic software platform that helps enterprise customers provision, scale, and orchestrate Apache Airflow instances completely on-premises within their own environments.
- •Key Responsibilities Define, Design, and Build Core Architecture for a self-contained infrastructure platform.
- •Architect an Extensible Platform API for customer-facing UI and programmatic integrations.
- •Design Comprehensive Platform Observability for deep visibility into core services and Airflow instances.
- •Architect for Varied Isolation Levels, ensuring smooth operation in connected private clouds or zero-egress networks.
- •Provide Technical Leadership and translate enterprise infrastructure needs into execution roadmaps.
- •Requirements 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in enterprise infrastructure, DBaaS, or private cloud.
- •Proven success building production-grade infrastructure control planes and deep understanding of API design principles.
- •Practical experience designing and implementing infrastructure observability stacks within isolated environments.
- •Solid operational knowledge and architectural understanding of Kubernetes, including custom Kubernetes Operators (CRDs) and Helm deployments.
- •Hands-on systems design expertise involving isolated environments across multiple public cloud providers, OpenShift, and bare-metal on-premise infrastructure.
Required skills
KubernetesGoPythonTypeScriptHelmREST APIgRPCPrometheusGrafanaPostgreSQL
Nice-to-have skills
AWSGoogle CloudAzure
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
equity, comprehensive benefits package
Tech stack
PythonGoTypeScriptKubernetesHelmgRPCREST APIPostgreSQLPrometheusGrafanaAWSGoogle CloudAzure