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Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 700 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.

Your background may be unconventional; as long as you have the essential qualifications, we encourage you to apply. While having "bonus" qualifications makes for a strong candidate, Astronomer values diverse experiences. Many of us at Astronomer haven't followed traditional career paths, and we welcome it if yours hasn't either.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation and deployment of our flagship enterprise.

At Astronomer, our R&D team is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience in managing Apache Airflow at scale. As a leading player in the industry, we are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to work on the platform team of our flagship Enterprise product, Astronomer Software.

This team is responsible for maintaining and developing the API services, authentication, authorization, logging, observability, and alerting frameworks, common UI components, and the general reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the platform. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to scale and deliver exceptional value to our customers.

The work location for this role is in Hyderabad.

• Lead the design, development, and vision of Astronomer Software’s architecture and components across authentication and authorization, core API services, logging, metrics,and observability.

  
  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement, and iterate on the features used by the engineering org as a whole.

  
  

• Work with product management and customers to deliver customer-facing features and UI experiences.

  
  

• Continuously evaluate and improve the architecture and implementation of our platform.

  
  

• Contribute to the overall platform usability, reliability, and scalability.

  
  

• 8+ years of overall Software engineering experience, including experience in mentoring junior engineers.

  
  

• Proven experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in either Node.js/Golang/Python on a Kubernetes production environment.

  
  

• Experience in writing front-end applications in React.js

  
  

• Experience with SQL databases (Postgres/MySQL)

  
  

• Solid understanding of CI/CD tools like CircleCI and experience integrating them in a Kubernetes environment on any of the major cloud providers

  
  

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to find a middle ground.

  
  

• Experience communicating technical concepts through the use of architectural diagrams.

  
  

• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerization, and cloud-native application development.

  
  

• Write and maintain documentation around key systems and processes.

  
  

• Participate in an on-call rotation with some of our largest customers.

  
  

• Perform root cause analysis during incidents and document results in the form of post-mortems.
  

  
  

• Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators

  
  

• Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.

  
  

• Experience with at least one of the following languages: NodeJS, Go.

  
  

• Experience with OpenShift and the Red Hat marketplace.

  
  

• Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana and ELK stacks.

  
  

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