Astronomer is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Platform in Hyderabad to ensure the seamless operation and deployment of our flagship enterprise product. You will be responsible for the general reliability, scalability, and maintainability of the platform, working on critical areas like API services, authentication, authorization, and observability.
What You'll Do
- 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 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.
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
Nice to Have
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Backend: Node.js, Golang, Python
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, OpenShift
- Frontend: React.js
- Data: Postgres, MySQL
- Tooling: CircleCI, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
Team & Environment
You will work on the platform team of our flagship Enterprise product, Astronomer Software.
Work Mode
This is a local position in Hyderabad. Astronomer is a remote-first company.
At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
