Senior Software Engineer (Airflow Infrastructure)

• 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

• Engineer backend services with high quality, maintainable and well tested code

• Partner with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve

• Regularly engage in code reviews and provide constructive feedback

• Optimize the performance, reliability and scalability of existing backend services

• Investigate, prototype and propose ideas to improve user experience

• Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility

• Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot and debug to solve incidents

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- Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in creating technical specifications

• Ability to scope work and coordinate cross-functionally to address risks and ensure successful delivery

• Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging

• Strong proficiency in Python or Golang

• Ability to adjust to change and rapid pace of development

• A passion for reliability and operational excellence

• 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products

• Comfortable with testing frameworks, such as pytest

• Solid understanding of and experience with integrating with RESTful APIs and distributed systems

• Experience with Apache Airflow