Senior Software Engineer, Astronomer
Infrastructure Focus
$190-230k
+ Equity
Data orchestration platform
Job no longer available
Data orchestration platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190-230k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building and operating large, complex SaaS infrastructures, operating at scale
- Knowledge of fleet management
- Expertise with Golang, Java, or similar languages and a desire to learn Golang
- Production experience with distributed systems (Kubernetes preferred, but not required)
- Understanding of how to build with security in mind, so that Astronomer’s managed platform can securely integrate with any customer environment
- Ability to lead new features or service development for a large complex system with performance constraints
Desirable
- Programmatically managed k8s in multiple clouds (if this is you, tell us because we want to talk to you)
- Experience designing services for resiliency and high availability
- Developed greenfield cloud-based systems with service-oriented architectures
- Built tools (e.g., internal APIs, debuggers, etc.) for streamlining internal development and external deployment
- Been a top contributor or senior engineer building large, complex distributed systems, proprietary or open source
- Proficiency in a diverse set of programming languages
What the job involves
- You'll work on the software that powers the automation and lifecycle management of our cloud infrastructure, consisting of hundreds (and eventually thousands) of kubernetes clusters across clouds. You’ll also work closely with our core runtime, platform, and other product teams
- Work across domains to develop diverse features for our core infrastructure (ie: workload identity, multitenancy, cross region disaster recovery, cloud quota management, private network access, etc)
- Build and scale our flagship product, Astro, that deploys and enables data orchestration at the most complex levels for the largest companies on the planet
- Design, build, and iterate on our cloud infrastructure to effectively and efficiently manage customer deployments
- Contribute to the overall system performance, reliability, and scalability
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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