# Senior Data Platform Engineer - Enterprise Systems **Company:** [Astranis](https://zerogtalent.com/space-companies/astranis) **Location:** San Francisco **Work mode:** On-site **Seniority:** Senior **Employment type:** Full Time **Salary:** USD 145K–210K/yr **Category:** Software **Department:** Other **Listed:** 2026-09-18 [View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/space-jobs/astranis/senior-data-platform-engineer-enterprise-systems-4713723006) ## What you'll do - Architect data architecture and tooling - Lead customer discovery and project design - Build enterprise analytics pipelines - Establish data governance and access control ## What you need - 5+ yrs data engineering - enterprise data platforms - BS in CS or EE - Python, dbt, PostgreSQL, BigQuery/Snowflake, Kubernetes/GKE ## Job description 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 $1.2 billion from some of the world’s 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 153,000 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. We’re 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 you're 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 You’ll 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** - 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). **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). **What we offer:**  All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits. Base pay is just one component of Astranis’s 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. Astranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position. Base Salary $145,000—$210,000 USD **U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required** (To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) Our mission and products are built for everyone, regardless of gender, race, creed, or background. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we invite all people to join our team and bring their unique perspectives to make us stronger. #### **Astranis SMS Terms of Service** 1. **Recruiting Updates:** By opting in, you agree to receive SMS updates, interview coordination, and recruiting communications from Astranis Space Technologies Corp. 2. **Opt-Out:** You can cancel this service at any time by replying **STOP**. 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