Senior Data Platform Engineer — Scale Global Satellite Data

Astranis

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 145,000 - 210,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Equity in compensation package
Health insurance
Disability & life insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible PTO
Free on-site catered meals

Job summary

Astranis is scaling its satellite data platform and seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to define, architect, and build core data architecture and observability tooling. You will work across hardware, software, and operations teams to turn complex requirements into production-grade data tools.

You will design ingestion, storage, and access patterns, implement governance models, and build standardized pipelines linking telemetry, supply chain, factory floor data, and ERP sources for

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).
  • Experience with modern data orchestration and modeling tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).

Responsibilities

  • Architect data architecture, ingestion, storage, and access patterns separating transactional databases (OLTP) from analytical warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake).
  • Conduct internal discovery across aerospace engineers, technicians, finance, sales, and software teams to gather requirements for backend data tools and platforms.
  • Build standardized data pipelines and modeling frameworks (dbt) that stitch telemetry, supply chain, factory, and ERP data into unified analytical stores.
  • Create end-to-end logging and observability pipelines to collect, normalize, and query logs, traces, and telemetry for real-time monitoring.
  • Establish corporate data governance, RBAC, and schema evolution strategies to ensure data security and quality.

Skills

Python
RBAC
Data Governance
Schema Evolution
PostgreSQL
OLTP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

PostgreSQL
BigQuery
Snowflake
dbt
Airflow
Prefect
Dagster
Docker
Kubernetes
GKE
GCP
RESTful
gRPC

Job description

Astranis is scaling its satellite data platform and seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to define, architect, and build core data architecture and observability tooling. You will work across hardware, software, and operations teams to turn complex requirements into production-grade data tools.

You will design ingestion, storage, and access patterns, implement governance models, and build standardized pipelines linking telemetry, supply chain, factory floor data, and ERP sources for

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