Senior Software Engineer, Astronomer
Airflow Infrastructure
$210-250k
3+ days a week in office
Data orchestration platform
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Data orchestration platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$210-250k
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products
- Strong proficiency in Python or Golang
- Hands-on 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
Desirable
- Experience with Apache Airflow
What the job involves
- At Astronomer, we’re redefining how companies run Apache Airflow at scale. Our R&D organization is home to some of the most innovative minds in cloud infrastructure and open-source software
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Airflow Infra team, part of Astro, our flagship cloud platform. You’ll be building the critical layer that connects the open-source Airflow ecosystem to enterprise-grade, massively scalable cloud infrastructure. Your work will directly influence how global organizations orchestrate data pipelines at scale—making them faster, more reliable, and easier to manage
- If you’re driven by impact, excited by scale, and ready to work on the kind of infrastructure challenges that push the boundaries of what’s possible in cloud-native systems, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for
- 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
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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