Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure & Systems)

About this role

• Senior and Staff Software Engineers on our Infrastructure team own the architecture of the systems that stand up, configure, and manage the infrastructure the underlying Airflows run on
• This includes the security of those systems and the reliability and observability capabilities that keep Astro running at scale, across both Astronomer’s multi-tenant cloud platform and Astro Private Cloud, our self-hosted distribution for regulated organizations running Airflow in their own private clouds or fully isolated data centers
• You’ll design and build the control-plane services, the APIs that drive infrastructure lifecycle management, and the control/data-plane interaction patterns that make it possible to bring up and manage that infrastructure — including how those interactions hold up across network topologies from standard private cloud to zero-egress, air-gapped environments
• You’ll bring deep, hands-on expertise in distributed systems, API design, and infrastructure lifecycle management, own the technical direction, design, and implementation of key areas of the platform, and mentor engineers earlier in their careers
• This posting covers both Senior Software Engineer and Staff Software Engineer, with the level you’re hired at depending on experience and demonstrated scope
• Design and own the architecture of the systems that stand up, scale, and manage the infrastructure Airflow runs on, leading these efforts end-to-end (design, implementation, tests, documentation, and rollout)
• Design and evolve the APIs (REST/gRPC) that drive infrastructure lifecycle management, powering customer-facing UI and programmatic integrations, including data modeling, versioning, and backward compatibility
• Own the networking and security posture of these systems, including how they authenticate, authorize, and communicate securely, and drive CVE remediation, image hardening, and Pod Security Standards compliance
• Architect observability and traceability across the stack: metric...