Senior Software Engineer, Airflow Infrastructure

Job Overview

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.

The Role

For this role, you will embrace a flexible hybrid work model with at least 3 days per week in our New York City office. You will join a high-performing team responsible for the critical infrastructure connecting open-source Airflow to our enterprise cloud platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineering backend services with high quality, maintainable and well-tested code.
• Partnering with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve.
• Regularly engaging in code reviews and providing constructive feedback.
• Optimizing the performance, reliability and scalability of existing backend services.
• Investigating, prototyping and proposing ideas to improve user experience.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.
• Participating in on-call rotation, troubleshooting and debugging to solve incidents.

Required Qualifications

You'll be an experienced Senior Software Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and is passionate about reliability and operational excellence.

You'll ideally have experience with:

• 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.
• Testing frameworks, such as pytest.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in creating technical specifications.
• Scoping work and coordinating cross-functionally to address risks and ensure successful delivery.
• Software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.
• Ability to adjust to change and the rapid pace of development.
• A proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.

Desirable Experience

We're particularly interested if you also have experience with:

• Apache Airflow.

Benefits & Compensation

The estimated salary for this role ranges from $200,000 - $230,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. This range is merely an estimate; actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.