Astronomer · 3 weeks ago
Senior Software Engineer, Airflow Infra
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $210K/yrAstronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. The Senior Software Engineer will build the critical layer connecting the open-source Airflow ecosystem to enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure, influencing how organizations orchestrate data pipelines at scale.
AnalyticsBig DataData IntegrationMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Engineer backend services with high quality, maintainable and well tested code
Partner with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve
Regularly engage in code reviews and provide constructive feedback
Optimize the performance, reliability and scalability of existing backend services
Investigate, prototype and propose ideas to improve user experience
Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility
Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot and debug to solve incidents
Qualification
Required
Strong proficiency in Python
Golang experience
Experience with Kubernetes
Solid understanding of and experience with integrating with RESTful APIs and distributed systems
Comfortable with testing frameworks, such as pytest
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in creating technical specifications
A passion for reliability and operational excellence
Ability to scope work and coordinate cross-functionally to address risks and ensure successful delivery
Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging
Ability to adjust to change and rapid pace of development
Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability
Preferred
Experience with Apache Airflow
Experience working on a SaaS product
Benefits
Equity component
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
Astronomer
Astronomer is a data orchestration platform built on Apache Airflow, enabling teams to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale.
Founded in 2015
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$377.8MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesInsight PartnersSierra Ventures
2025-05-01Series D· $93M
2022-03-23Series C· $213M
2021-01-29Series B· $43.6M
Leadership Team
Pete DeJoy
CEO, Co-Founder
Steven Hillion
VP, Data & ML
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