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Principal Software Engineer

Astronomer ·New York City ·Hybrid 87d ago
KubernetesHelmGoPythonTypeScriptPrometheusOTELGrafanagRPCPostgreSQLAWSGCPAzure

About the role

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and team mentorship for our core engineering group. You will be the primary architect of a cloud-agnostic platform that helps enterprise customers provision, scale, and orchestrate Apache Airflow instances completely on-premises. This role involves defining core architecture, designing extensible APIs, architecting observability, and leading the team.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience at Staff/Principal level in enterprise infrastructure. Proven success building production-grade infrastructure control planes. Expertise in cloud-native observability (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana). Strong Kubernetes foundation with custom operators and Helm. Hybrid cloud architecture across AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenShift, bare-metal. Expert-level coding in Go, Python, TypeScript. Exceptional technical communication skills.

About the company

Astronomer

Astronomer provides a fully managed orchestration platform for data and AI workflows, powered by Apache Airflow. Their solution, Astro, allows data engineers to move workflows from prototype to production reliably and at scale, augmented with AI capabilities for intelligent automation and root cause analysis.

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$277k–390k
Hybrid New York City
Posted 87d ago
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Astronomer
https://www.astronomer.io

Astronomer provides a fully managed orchestration platform for data and AI workflows, powered by Apache Airflow. Their solution, Astro, allows data engineers to move workflows from prototype to production reliably and at scale, augmented with AI capabilities for intelligent automation and root cause analysis.

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