Senior Data Platform Engineer Enterprise Systems
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San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits expanding humanitys reach into the solar system. Today Astranis satellites provide dedicated secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe large enterprises sovereign governments and the US military.
With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime data security network visibility and customization.
Astranis has raised over $1.2 billion from some of the worlds best investors including Andreessen Horowitz Baillie Gifford Blackrock Fidelity Franklin Templeton and Snowpoint and employs a team of 500 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs builds and operates its satellites out of its 153000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California USA.
Senior Data Platform Engineer - Enterprise Systems
Astranis is scaling satellite production at a record pace. Building constellations of commercial geostationary spacecraft generates massive amounts of telemetry manufacturing supply chain and application data. To keep our engineers moving fast we need a unified scalable data platform and observability infrastructure that brings clarity to every operational detail from the factory floor to launch.
Were looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to define architect and build our core data architecture unified logging pipelines and internal data tools. You will conduct hands-on customer discovery across hardware software and operational teams to turn complex requirements into production-ready software tools and establish clear architectural patterns across our data stack.
If youre a platform engineer who thrives on customer discovery systems architecture and turning raw data into intelligence to scale our fleet come build with us.
Role
What Youll Build:
- Architectural Strategy & Tooling: Define our overarching data architecture ingestion storage and access patterns separating transactional databases (Managed Postgres) from centralized analytical warehouses (BigQuery Snowflake).
- Internal Customer Discovery & Project Design: Conduct discovery across the company working with aerospace engineers technicians finance sales and software teams to gather requirements and build robust backend data tools and platforms.
- Enterprise Analytics Engine: Build standardized data pipelines and modeling frameworks (dbt) that stitch together telemetry supply chain factory floor (ION) and ERP (NetSuite) data into unified analytical stores for cross-functional reporting.
- Unified Logging & Observability Platform: Build end-to-end pipelines to collect normalize and query structured logs traces and hardware telemetry across backend services and factory testbeds for real-time system monitoring and debugging.
- Governance & Access Control: Establish corporate data governance frameworks Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and robust schema evolution strategies to guarantee data security quality and backward compatibility.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or equivalent technical experience.
- 5 years of professional software/data engineering experience with a focus on data infrastructure data platforms or backend engineering.
- Strong proficiency with Python and solid software design fundamentals.
- Proven experience implementing RBAC Data Governance and Schema Evolution/Migration strategies in production environments.
- Deep database expertise in transactional relational databases (PostgreSQL schema design OLTP workflows) as well as columnar databases and analytical data warehouses (BigQuery Snowflake).
- Experience with modern data orchestration and modeling tools (e.g. dbt Airflow Prefect Dagster).
Bonus
- Domain Tools & Integrations: Prior experience building data integrations around hardware PLM MES or ERP platforms (Altium Arena First Resonance ION NetSuite).
- Aerospace & Manufacturing: Background working in hardware-centric environments such as aerospace automotive robotics or complex precision manufacturing.
- APIs & Infrastructure: Experience designing building and maintaining robust APIs (RESTful gRPC) and cloud infrastructure (Docker Kubernetes/GKE GCP).
Base pay is just one component of Astraniss total rewards package. Your compensation also includes a significant equity package via incentive stock options high-quality company-subsidized healthcare disability and life insurance 401(k) retirement planning flexible PTO and free on-site catered meals.
Base Salary
$145000 - $210000 USD
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About Company
Astranis designs, builds, and operates the world’s most advanced high orbit satellites for sovereign connectivity.
