Senior Software Engineer, Astronomer
Observability
CA$190-220k
+ Equity
Data orchestration platform
Job no longer available
Data orchestration platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$190-220k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- A strong focus on helping customers gain more visibility and actionable insights through our observability offerings
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to find middle ground
- 5+ years of engineering experience
- Experience with fast-paced startup environments
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with SQL and OLAP databases
- Experience with distributed systems and stream processing
- Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging
Desirable
- Experience with data observability products
- Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators
What the job involves
- At Astronomer, our R&D team is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience in managing Apache Airflow at scale. As a leading player in the industry, we are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to work on our data observability product, a critical component of our expansion strategy.
- You will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our data observability platform. Your contributions will directly impact our ability to scale and deliver exceptional value to our customers
- Contribute to the design, development and vision of Astro’s data observability platform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement and iterate on the observability and governance features to help our customers gain visibility into their data pipelines and data products
- Continuously evaluate and improve the architecture and implementation of our observability platform
- Contribute to the overall platform usability, 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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