Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud Native Reliability (Remote)

Userc Dehradun; Ireland; Remote; EUR 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Astronomer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform in Ireland. You will help redefine how we run Apache Airflow at scale, shaping production infrastructure and the Astro, Observe, and IDE products.

Expect ownership, hands-on build/test/deploy work, and collaboration across a global team to improve reliability and performance. You will join a growing Platform Engineering team, work on cutting-edge cloud-native systems, and contribute to a comprehensive benefits package while operating

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing and implementing non-abstract systems.
• Proficiency in Python and Golang with Kubernetes expertise (CKA+).
• Knowledge of observability, SLI/SLO and incident management.
• Excellent written and spoken communication across distributed teams.
• Commitment to reliability and reducing toil; ownership mindset.
• Experience with CI/CD, version control and automation practices.

Responsibilities

• Make data-driven decisions to shape the next generation of the production platform.
• Own testing, building and deployment in a high-scale PaaS environment.
• Collaborate to design production systems and set tech standards.
• Deliver reliable results while changing wheels on the bus safely.
• Lead Platform Engineering initiatives and promote documentation.

Skills

Python

Golang

Kubernetes

Observability

SLI/SLO

Communication

Reliability

CI/CD

Tools

CircleCI

Chronosphere

Splunk

Bazel

Istio

Playwright

Karpenter

Github Actions

Job description

Astronomer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform in Ireland. You will help redefine how we run Apache Airflow at scale, shaping production infrastructure and the Astro, Observe, and IDE products.

Expect ownership, hands-on build/test/deploy work, and collaboration across a global team to improve reliability and performance. You will join a growing Platform Engineering team, work on cutting-edge cloud-native systems, and contribute to a comprehensive benefits package while operating