Staff Frontend Engineer, Astronomer
$175-265k
Plus equity
Data orchestration platform
Job no longer available
Data orchestration platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$175-265k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of frontend engineering experience
- Experience leading complex front-end projects from conception to completion
- 5+ years of experience with Typescript
- Strong proficiency in modern front-end technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, or similar frameworks
- Deep knowledge of architecture design, data structures, algorithms, online services, frameworks, and their tradeoffs
- Experience in developing applications that meet enterprise-level security and control
- Experience working with RESTful APIs and integrating with backend services
- Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging
- Passion for open-source technologies/ecosystems
Desirable
- A portfolio you can share to demonstrate the strength of your work
- Experience with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
- Familiarity with server-side web technologies
- Familiarity with big data processing frameworks such as Apache Airflow or Apache Spark
- Experience with UI/UX design tools like Sketch or Figma
What the job involves
- As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you will shape and execute frontend development of applications at Astronomer
- You will work on our cloud-based managed service for Apache Airflow, focusing on building a user-friendly and intuitive UI that seamlessly integrates with the greater Astronomer product ecosystem
- You will work collaboratively with our data plane and other product teams to create an exceptional user experience for our customers
- Own the end-to-end user experience for a new business-critical application
- Design, implement, and maintain UI components, to build new features and improve existing ones
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize user needs, functional requirements, and design specifications
- Continuously improve the user experience by optimizing performance and resolving technical issues
- Collaborate with our team of Airflow connoisseurs, adding unique features to the open-source Airflow initiatives that set us apart in the commercial landscape
- Contribute to a culture of innovation by proposing new ideas, testing new technologies and sharing your knowledge with the team
- Review user feedback with product leads and triage into new features
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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