Senior Software Engineer, Airflow Infra — Cloud Scale

Astronomer; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Astronomer in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Airflow Infra team. You will build the critical layer that connects the open-source Airflow ecosystem to enterprise-grade, massively scalable cloud infrastructure, shaping how global data pipelines run at scale.

This hybrid role requires at least 3 days per week in our New York City office, with a salary range of $210,000 to $250,000 plus equity and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering SaaS products.
• Proficient in Python or Golang and modern backend tech.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and distributed systems.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and testing (pytest).
• Strong communication and technical specification skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer backend services with high quality, maintainable and well tested code.
• Partner with engineers, product, reliability support, and leadership to evolve systems.
• Regularly engage in code reviews and provide feedback.
• Optimize performance, reliability and scalability of backend services.
• Investigate and prototype ideas to improve user experience.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes.
• Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot and fix incidents.

Skills

Python or Go

Kubernetes

REST APIs

pytest

Communication

CI/CD

Ownership

Best practices

SaaS

Fast-paced env

Apache Airflow

Job description

Astronomer in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Airflow Infra team. You will build the critical layer that connects the open-source Airflow ecosystem to enterprise-grade, massively scalable cloud infrastructure, shaping how global data pipelines run at scale.

This hybrid role requires at least 3 days per week in our New York City office, with a salary range of $210,000 to $250,000 plus equity and a comprehensive benefits package.