Staff Software Engineer, Observability
AstronomerData Orchestration company
New York, United States$275,000 - $377,000Lead
Bain Capital Ventures
Salesforce Ventures
Insight Partners
Meritech Capital
Venrock
J.P. Morgan
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the design, development, and scaling of Astronomer's observability platform.
- •Astronomer is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join their Observability team.
- •This role will focus on designing, developing, and scaling Astronomer's observability platform to provide customers with visibility and reliability into their data pipelines.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the end-to-end architecture and evolution of major platform components.
- •Build scalable, reliable, and performant features for data pipeline visibility.
- •Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams on high-impact initiatives.
- •Write high-quality, maintainable code following best practices in testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
- •Set and champion engineering standards across the team.
- •Requirements Strong technical experience building complex distributed systems, preferably with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, SQL/OLAP databases, Kafka, and stream processing.
- •Hands-on experience designing, developing, and scaling production infrastructure.
- •Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- •Focus on delivering customer value through thoughtful technical solutions.
- •Comfort working in areas of high ambiguity.
Required skills
GoPythonKubernetesSQLCI/CDDockerLinuxGit
Nice-to-have skills
AirflowDatadogPrometheusGrafana
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Benefits & perks
equity, comprehensive benefits package
Tech stack
GoPythonKubernetesSQLGitLinuxDockerCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogREST APIgRPC