Senior Solutions Architect, Astronomer
Airflow
$190-250k
+ Equity
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Data orchestration platform
Job no longer available
Data orchestration platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190-250k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture
- Airflow expertise authoring and deploying Dags to production, monitoring execution, and troubleshooting failures
- Experience tuning Airflow performance, refactoring Dag code, right-sizing infrastructure, and implementing data quality checks and alerts
- Proven track record of guiding customers through platform deployments, migrations, or technical transformations, managing scope, timelines, and stakeholder conflicts
- Strong background in designing cloud native data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP, with familiarity in enterprise networking, security, and identity patterns
- Programming experience in Python and SQL
- Familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery, or Redshift
- Track record leading architecture discussions and driving technical decisions with engineering leaders and executive stakeholders
- Strong communication and documentation skills; can translate business requirements into scalable, production-ready architectures
What the job involves
- As a Senior Solutions Architect on the Delivery Architecture team, you are the senior technical lead for customer engagements within Astronomer’s Services Delivery team
- You work in small teams with project managers and engineers, helping customers operationalize Airflow and Astro at scale
- You interact directly with engineers, architects, and executives to design their data orchestration platform on Astro. This role combines solution architecture with hands-on technical work, including building prototypes to validate designs
- Lead architecture reviews, workshops, and technical design sessions with engineering teams and executive stakeholders
- Design end-to-end platform architectures integrating Airflow with cloud infrastructure, compute frameworks, and data platforms
- Review delivery work to ensure high standards for scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence
- Diagnose and resolve issues, guide customers through deployments, migrations, and platform modernization
- Build reusable tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best practices that improve delivery quality across the organization
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.
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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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