Senior Data Platform Engineer — Enterprise Systems (Equity)

Astranis Space Technologies; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Retirement plan

Flexible PTO

Free on-site meals

Job summary

Astranis is building a scalable data platform for enterprise-grade satellite operations in San Francisco. The Senior Data Platform Engineer will design architecture, governance, and pipelines that combine telemetry, manufacturing, and ERP data for cross-functional analytics.

You will shape ingestion, storage, and access patterns, implement RBAC, and partner with engineering, operations, and finance to deliver robust data tools from factory floor to launch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software/data engineering with a focus on data infrastructure, data platforms, or backend engineering.
• Strong proficiency with Python and solid software design fundamentals.
• Proven experience implementing RBAC, Data Governance, and Schema Evolution/Migration strategies in production environments.
• Deep database expertise in transactional, relational databases (PostgreSQL schema design, OLTP workflows) as well as columnar databases and analytical data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake).

Responsibilities

• Architectural Strategy & Tooling: Define overarching data architecture, ingestion, storage, and access patterns separating transactional databases from centralized analytical warehouses.
• Internal Customer Discovery & Project Design: Conduct discovery across the company with engineers, technicians, finance, sales, and software teams to gather requirements and build robust backend data tools.
• Enterprise Analytics Engine: Build standardized data pipelines and modeling frameworks (dbt) that stitch together telemetry, supply chain, factory floor, and ERP data into unified analytical stores for cross-functional reporting.
• Unified Logging & Observability Platform: Build end-to-end pipelines to collect, normalize, and query structured logs and hardware telemetry for real-time system monitoring.
• Governance & Access Control: Establish corporate data governance frameworks, RBAC, and schema evolution strategies to ensure data security and quality.

Skills

Python

RBAC

Data governance

Schema evolution

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

Snowflake

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

Astranis is building a scalable data platform for enterprise-grade satellite operations in San Francisco. The Senior Data Platform Engineer will design architecture, governance, and pipelines that combine telemetry, manufacturing, and ERP data for cross-functional analytics.

You will shape ingestion, storage, and access patterns, implement RBAC, and partner with engineering, operations, and finance to deliver robust data tools from factory floor to launch.