astronomer - Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

• Blaze a Trail: Own and develop our platform infrastructure strategy, with the sponsorship and responsibility to match. Map out what we need, make the calls, and own the outcomes. • Be an Owner: Be directly involved in deciding what we work on and how we work on it. Make promises, and keep them. • Do Sensible Things: Make principled build vs. buy assessments and advocate for the right tools for the right job — not the fashionable ones, not the ones already in the estate just because they’re there. • Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records for systems and processes. Participate in architectural forums and make principled, open decisions that the rest of the organisation can learn from and hold us to. • Experience with storage primitives at the system level — you’ve reasoned about when to reach for a relational store vs. an object store vs. something else, and you have real opinions informed by real failures. • Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers. • Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration systems.