Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

🏢 Astronomer · 📍 London · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.

About this role

Astronomer’s products run on a complex, multi-cloud platform — and the scalability, and operational maturity of that platform is what we’re actively investing in. The work ahead on our Platform team isn’t about managing data or curating pipelines; it’s about building the foundational systems that everything else runs on — the kind of systems where the failure modes matter, the latency budgets are real, and getting it wrong has visible consequences for hundreds of enterprise customers.

We’re looking for a Staff+-level engineer who has built production platform systems at scale before — not just consumed them. You’ve designed systems under load, reasoned carefully about failure, and made your colleagues’ lives better by giving them something solid and well-understood to build on top of. You write strategy documents and then write the code that proves them out. You’ve been the person who made the call, and lived with the consequences.

This is a foundational role at a consequential moment: your work will directly shape what Astronomer’s products — Astro, Observe, and our IDE — are capable of over the next several years.

What you get to do

Astronomer has a healthy and complex infrastructure estate spanning multiple cloud providers, a mix of managed and self-hosted systems, and an increasingly ambitious set of requirements as our products evolve. We have a clear sense of where we need to go; we need the right person to figure out how to get there and then go build it.

This is very much a technical role — you’ll be just as inv

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Astronomer Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluates deep open-source ecosystem fluency, particularly around Apache Airflow, and the ability to scale distributed data orchestration platforms.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Dismissing the open-source community model or treating OSS contributions as a mere resume filler
2. Lacking fundamental intuition around distributed systems failure modes
3. Proposing monolithic architectures for highly scalable orchestration problems

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I have spent my career scaling data orchestration pipelines and contributing to the open-source ecosystems that power modern data infrastructure.

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