Field Engineer, Astronomer
SWAT
Data orchestration platform
Open for applications
Data orchestration platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- Strong Kubernetes experience (GKE/EKS/AKS or OpenShift preferred)
- Expertise in at least one programming language
- Good understanding of network complexities and architectures
- Versatile Terminal and CLI user, this will be a hands-on role, frequently without access to a GUI
- Experience setting up and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Experience with complex SaaS infrastructure operating at scale
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider API/tooling
- Ability to read code
- Work effectively with git
- Cloud-native data architecture experience
- Strong customer facing skills
- Strong oral and written communications skills - should be able to explain complex technical issues to non-technical folks succinctly
Desirable
- Prior experience using or administering Apache Airflow, Autosys, UC4, Temporal, Dagster, or Prefect
- Proficiency in Python/Go
- Enterprise data experience with or in regulated environments
- Experience with scripting/automation specifically infra (Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- 5+ years experience in a data engineering role or equivalent
- 3+ years in a customer-facing role
- Experience with ElasticSearch/Prometheus/Vault
What the job involves
- As a Field Engineer, SWAT, you will join our field team to deliver world-class technical solutions to customer and prospect business problems. In this role, you will be exposed to a wide range of use cases where Apache Airflow sits at the center of the solution
- The impacts you will make will enable customers to rapidly grow their businesses by adopting Astronomer products to meet their goals
- Implement Astronomer’s software and services in the core of some of the world’s largest businesses and organizations
- Guide our largest and most complex customers in their Apache Airflow journeys
- Act as the core interface between the Customer, Sales, and Product to ensure that the broader solution around the platform is solving pain points and bringing value to customers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Developing data pipelines is essential for modern businesses to stay competitive, but building them can be a slow process. Workflow management tools for data engineering pipelines such as Apache Airflow makes the development process significantly simpler, but managing it manually is still a repetitive, convoluted, and time-consuming process.
Astronomer provides a data orchestration platform called Astro powered by Apache Airflow, aiming to automate its data pipeline management processes, unify data flows, and ultimately help businesses to access the software's full potential without DevOps. The company claims that its collaborative system helps teams to build data pipelines faster, increase data availability, ensure runtime environments are reliable within cloud infrastructures, and provide a holistic overview of business data.
Whilst it is undeniable that the company faces competition from other data orchestration platforms, Astronomer has been smart to recognize the presence of inefficiencies in Apache Airflow, despite its great potential. The company is thus providing solutions to improve it, not replace it, a unique perspective that shows great potential for Astronomer to disrupt the market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2025
$93m
SERIES D
Mar 2022
$213m
SERIES C
Total funding: $372.8m
Company benefits
- Remote friendly, work from anywhere
- If you’re in a city with an office, it’s there (and stocked with snacks) when you need it
- Co-workers in over 40 states and 15 countries around the world
- Health, dental, and vision insurance at little to no cost for individuals, and at competitive rates for your dependents
- Disability and life insurance policies in case something happens
- Unlimited vacation - we do track vacation days and actively encourage people to take it (on average, Astronomers take 20 days of vacation per year)
- Parental leave
- Laptop of your choice, and a stipend to help with your work-from-home setup
- Monthly $170 pre-tax stipend intended to cover your cellphone and WiFi bills
- Yearly internal summit for all employees
- Regular access to conferences, workshops, and meetups in the ecosystem
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Greg Neiheisel
(Co-founder)Software Engineer for Great American Insurance from 2011 to 2013. Experience as Founder and CTO of USERcycle.
Tim Brunk
(Co-founder)Co-founder of Cladwell since 2012 and of Ocean Accelerator since 2014. Founder of MetaRouter since 2018.
Pete DeJoy
(CEO & Co-founder)Fellow at Venture for America since 2016. Has held many roles at the company, including SVP of Product and CPO, becoming CEO in 2025.
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