Senior Software Engineer, Astronomer

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong ownership of building and shipping production systems end-to-end
• Strong experience building backend services or microservices using Node.js
• Experience with Golang or Python
• Experience building or contributing to modern frontend applications (React.js or similar), or willingness to do so
• Experience working in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Solid understanding of system design, APIs, and distributed systems
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and influence decisions
• Experience designing systems and clearly communicating architecture, such as diagrams and design docs
• Experience with SQL databases such as Postgres or MySQL
• Experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Ability to balance technical excellence with product thinking and customer needs
• Experience with security best practices across the full stack, including API controls (rate limiting, auth), Kubernetes (RBAC, Kyverno/OPA), secrets management, and container security
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, debugging, or productivity tools) to improve engineering velocity

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer, you’ll build the application-layer services and user experiences that customers rely on every day to run and scale their data workflows
• This role sits within the Astro Private Cloud team, focused on building the Control Plane services and user experiences
• You’ll design and build microservices, APIs, and UI components that power how customers deploy, configure, monitor, and operate Airflow environments at scale
• You’ll work on top of a Kubernetes-based platform, partnering closely with the core infrastructure and QA teams, but your day-to-day work will center around backend services, APIs, and customer-facing features
• This is a backend-leaning, full-stack role where you’ll have direct impact on product experience, usability, and reliability
• Design and build microservices and APIs that power the Control Plane (Node.js, Go, Python) and manage the lifecycle of Airflow environments (provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades)
• Develop customer-facing features and UI components using React that make complex systems intuitive and easy to use
• Own features end-to-end, from concept to production across APIs, backend services, and frontend interfaces
• Build systems that orchestrate environment lifecycle management, including deploys, upgrades, configuration changes, and operational workflows
• Partner with product managers, designers, and customers to translate real-world needs into impactful product capabilities
• Improve the usability, performance, and reliability of the platform with a strong focus on customer experience
• Contribute to system design and architecture decisions for control plane services, including APIs, authentication, multi-tenancy, observability, and service interactions
• Collaborate with platform/infrastructure teams, while maintaining primary ownership of services and product features
• Help define best practices for how engineers build and extend application services on Astro Private Cloud
• You’ll work on features customers see and use every day, not just behind-the-scenes systems
• You’ll work on the control plane that helps enterprises orchestrate and manage Airflow environments at scale
• You’ll operate at the intersection of product, platform, and user experience
• You’ll help simplify complex infrastructure into intuitive, powerful workflows
• You’ll work in an engineering culture that embraces AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve productivity and accelerate delivery