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Senior Data Platform Engineer - Enterprise Systems

Astranis· Engineering
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San Francisco$145k - $210kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Data Platform Engineer to define, architect, and build Astranis' core data architecture, unified logging pipelines, and internal data tools. Focus on data infrastructure, platforms, and backend engineering to scale telemetry, manufacturing, supply chain, and ERP data across the company.

Responsibilities

  • 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, RBAC, and robust schema evolution strategies to guarantee data security, quality, and backward compatibility.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s 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).

Skills

Required:PythonRBACData GovernanceSchema Evolution/MigrationPostgreSQLBigQuerySnowflakedbt
Nice to have:Airflow

Benefits

  • equity
  • high-quality company-subsidized healthcare
  • disability and life insurance
  • 401(k) retirement planning
  • flexible PTO
  • free on-site catered meals
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Astranis

Advanced satellites for high orbits.

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s 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 $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock, and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.

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