Senior Infrastructure & Tooling Engineer

Summary

Join Astronomer's R&D team and contribute to the Astro Platform Services team, focusing on providing a stable infrastructure platform, release automation, and developer tooling. You will play a key role in improving developer productivity, optimizing Kubernetes infrastructure, diagnosing and resolving infrastructure problems, and collaborating with the security team. This role requires 5+ years of engineering experience in a Linux and container-based cloud infrastructure environment, proficiency in Golang or Python, and production experience with CI/CD and Kubernetes. The position offers a competitive salary ($170,000-$200,000), equity, and a comprehensive benefits package. Astronomer values diversity and is a remote-first company.

Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience, working on a Linux and container based cloud infrastructure underpinning an always-on, critical function
• A ‘customer oriented’ mindset, experience building tools and services that other teams love to use
• Proficiency with Golang, Python, or similar languages, and a desire to learn Golang
• Production experience with CI/CD, deploying to a Kubernetes environment
• Understanding of how to build with security in mind

Responsibilities

• Identify and design solutions and tools to improve developer productivity, particularly with respect to reducing MTTR and increasing deployment velocity
• Optimize and evolve the Kubernetes based infrastructure that’s supporting the control planes of our Astro platform
• Diagnose and fix problems related to network and cloud infrastructure
• Work with an SRE mindset, helping teams implement SLOs, synthetic testing, and guidance on how to use our tooling and observability systems
• Work closely with our security team, to implement guardrails and systems to ensure we are following a least-privilege, just-in-time access model for our systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Azure and AKS
• Familiarity with GitOps tools, such as Flux, Flagger or ArgoCD
• Experience designing infrastructure for resiliency and high availability

Benefits

• The estimated salary for this role ranges from $170,000 - $200,000, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package
• Remote work