Astronomer
Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
New York City · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- At Astronomer, we're on a mission to make Apache Airflow the go-to standard for data orchestration, and our R&D team is at the heart of it.
- We're looking for a Software Engineer to our Core Platform team, where you'll work on core systems that power Astro's Public API, authentication, billing, alerting frameworks, and ensure the platform is reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
- Astro's Core Platform exists at the heart of all our products
Responsibilities
- This is a chance to build real-world production systems, collaborate with brilliant engineers, and directly impact how companies around the world manage their data.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement and iterate on features used in our product and by the engineering org as a whole.
Requirements
- Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators.
- Experience with critical business functions such as billing, authentication, and systems and practices around this area.
- A track record in building performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems.
- Experience in developing services with Go, interacting with dependencies and service orchestration on Kubernetes.
- Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and NALSD https://sre.google/workbook/non-abstract-design/.
- Experience rationally leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini) to accelerate development - from prototyping and automated testing to code refactoring and documentation.
- Contributions to open source projects.
- The estimated salary for this role ranges from $210,000 - $250,000 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.
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Nice to have
- Familiarity with SQL databases (Postgres, with Spanner experience also a plus)
Skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative mindset.
- 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 $210,000 - $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 $210,000 - $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.
- 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.
- Work with front end developers, product management and customers to deliver customer facing features such as public facing APIs and the technology behind Astro's own infrastructure.
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