Senior Platform Engineer, Reliability & Scale

Apply; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life. We are redefining how Apache Airflow runs at scale and building a high-scale PaaS platform.

Join us to influence the production systems, establish standards, and own critical reliability initiatives across Astro, Observe and our IDE product. As a Senior Software Engineer in Platform Engineering, you’ll help drive incident management, testing, deployment, and documentation while collaborating with a

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Non-Abstract Systems design and implementation.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Golang and Kubernetes (CKA or equivalent).
• Experience with observability principles and technologies, including SLI/SLO definition and tracking.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in working with a globally distributed team in delivery.
• A passion for reliability and operational excellence. A low tolerance for toil and other nonsense.
• Ability to estimate the scope of work accurately and coordinate with stakeholders to address risks and ensure successful project delivery.
• Experience with (and ideally strong opinions on) software development best practices, such as code review, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.
• Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Make high-quality, data-driven and experience-driven decisions on how we build this and the next generation of our production platform, then deliver the results.
• Own and build how we test, build and deploy code in a high-scale PaaS environment.
• Collaborate across the whole company on how we design production systems, set standards and make technology choices for new and existing products, and how these fit together.
• Deliver results - we routinely "change the wheels on the bus while it's moving", in a predictable, safe and reliable way.
• Be at the forefront of how we work together as a Platform Engineering team.
• Blaze a Trail: Work on a small but growing team on building out the Platform/Reliability practice for the company - this role reports directly to the VP of Reliability.
• Be an Owner: Be directly involved in decision-making on what we work on, as well as how we work on it. Make promises, and keep them.
• Do Sensible Things: Be directly involved in determining how our platform works. Participate in incident management and determine sensible practices as the platform evolves.
• Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.

Skills

Non-Abstract Systems design

Python

Golang

Kubernetes

Observability (SLI/SLO)

Incident management

Communication

Reliability & operational excellence

Estimation & planning

CI/CD

Automation & debugging

Tools

CircleCI

Chronosphere

Splunk

Bazel

Istio

Playwright

Karpenter

GitHub Actions

Job description

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life. We are redefining how Apache Airflow runs at scale and building a high-scale PaaS platform.

Join us to influence the production systems, establish standards, and own critical reliability initiatives across Astro, Observe and our IDE product. As a Senior Software Engineer in Platform Engineering, you’ll help drive incident management, testing, deployment, and documentation while collaborating with a