Astronomer
Senior Solutions Architect - Airflow (West Coast)
San Francisco · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$190k-$250kDetected 8 days ago
PythonBigQuerySnowflakeDatabricksAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerCI/CDPlatform EngineeringAirflowdbtData EngineeringCommunication
About the role
- You work in small teams with project managers and engineers, helping customers operationalize Airflow and Astro at scale.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- You interact directly with engineers, architects, and executives to design their data orchestration platform on Astro.
- Design end-to-end platform architectures integrating Airflow with cloud infrastructure, compute frameworks, and data platforms.
- Build reusable tools, frameworks, reference architectures, and best practices that improve delivery quality across the organization.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- Occasional travel may be required for conferences and team on-sites.
- 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.
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- can translate business requirements into scalable, production-ready architectures.
- Customer engagements are primarily remote. Occasional travel may be required for conferences and team on-sites.
Skills
- Strong communication and documentation skills; can translate business requirements into scalable, production-ready architectures.
- This range is merely an estimate; actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.
Compensation
- The estimated salary for this role ranges from $190,000 - $250,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
- The estimated salary for this role ranges from $190,000 - $250,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package.
Company info
- Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®.
- Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications.
- Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data.
- To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io http://www.astronomer.io.
- Airflow is the backbone of data infrastructure at the world's largest organizations, and Astronomer is the company behind it.
- You'll work on real, complex architecture problems with customers who are pushing the platform to its limits.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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