Airflow Infra Senior Software Engineer — Scale Cloud

Doist; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Astronomer is the company powering Astro, a leading unified DataOps platform. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the backend layer that connects Airflow to scalable cloud infrastructure, enabling faster, more reliable data pipelines for global enterprises.

Join a high-impact team in a hybrid New York City office, contributing to reliability, performance, and scale while shaping the next generation of cloud-native data orchestration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

Golang

Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

pytest

SaaS development

CI/CD

Tools

CI/CD

Job description

Astronomer is the company powering Astro, a leading unified DataOps platform. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the backend layer that connects Airflow to scalable cloud infrastructure, enabling faster, more reliable data pipelines for global enterprises.

Join a high-impact team in a hybrid New York City office, contributing to reliability, performance, and scale while shaping the next generation of cloud-native data orchestration.