Senior Data Platform Engineer - Observability & Analytics

astranis; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

401(k)

On-site meals

Job summary

Astranis is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer in San Francisco to define core data architecture, build unified data tooling, and deliver scalable pipelines from production data sources to analytical warehouses. You will partner with hardware, software, finance, and operations teams to turn telemetry, supply chain, and ERP data into trusted insights.

Join a fast-growing space tech company in an on-site role with equity, comprehensive benefits, and a mission to scale fleet-wide data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
• 5+ years of professional software/data engineering experience 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

• Define our overarching data architecture, ingestion, storage, and access patterns separating transactional databases from centralized analytical warehouses.
• Conduct discovery across the company with engineers and operations to gather requirements and build robust backend data tools.
• Build standardized data pipelines and modeling frameworks (dbt) stitching telemetry, supply chain, and ERP data into unified analytical stores.
• Create end-to-end logging and observability pipelines for real-time monitoring of backend services and factory testbeds.
• Establish governance and access controls (RBAC) and robust schema evolution strategies.

Skills

Python

RBAC

Data governance

Schema evolution

Backend engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Prefect

Dagster

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Astranis is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer in San Francisco to define core data architecture, build unified data tooling, and deliver scalable pipelines from production data sources to analytical warehouses. You will partner with hardware, software, finance, and operations teams to turn telemetry, supply chain, and ERP data into trusted insights.

Join a fast-growing space tech company in an on-site role with equity, comprehensive benefits, and a mission to scale fleet-wide data