Astronomer · 3 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Platform - New York
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $210K/yr
8+ years expAstronomer is a company that empowers data teams to enhance software, analytics, and AI through its DataOps platform, Astro. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for the operation and deployment of the platform, focusing on API services, authentication, and overall platform reliability and scalability.
AnalyticsBig DataData IntegrationMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, and vision of Astro Private Cloud’s architecture and components across authentication and authorization, core API services, logging, metrics, and observability
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement, and iterate on the features used by the engineering org as a whole
Work with product management and customers to deliver customer-facing features and UI experiences
Continuously evaluate and improve the architecture and implementation of our platform
Contribute to the overall usability, reliability, and scalability of the platform
Qualification
Required
8+ years of overall Software engineering experience, including experience in mentoring junior engineers
Proven experience deploying, managing, and scaling applications in either Node.js/Golang/Python on a Kubernetes production environment
Experience in writing front-end applications in React.js
Experience with SQL databases (Postgres/MySQL)
Solid understanding of CI/CD tools like CircleCI and experience integrating them in a Kubernetes environment on any of the major cloud providers
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to find a middle ground
Experience communicating technical concepts through the use of architectural diagrams
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, containerization, and cloud-native application development
Write and maintain documentation around key systems and processes
Participate in an on-call rotation with some of our largest customers
Perform root cause analysis during incidents and document results in the form of post-mortems
Preferred
Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators
Experience with scale testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
Experience with at least one of the following languages: NodeJS, Go
Experience with OpenShift and the Red Hat marketplace
Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana and ELK stacks
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.
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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