Senior Software Engineer, Airflow Infra — Cloud-Scale Backend

Astronomer; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Hybrid work

Job summary

Astronomer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Airflow Infra team, building the critical layer between the open-source Airflow ecosystem and scalable cloud infrastructure. You will help accelerate data pipelines for global enterprises, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

The role offers a hybrid model with at least 3 days in our New York City office, competitive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and delivering SaaS products.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Golang and Kubernetes expertise.
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Engineer backend services with high quality, well-tested code.
• Collaborate with engineers, product, and leadership to evolve systems.
• Lead code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of backend services.
• Prototype ideas to enhance user experience and document systems.
• Participate in on-call rotation and triage incidents.

Skills

5+ years SaaS

Python

Golang

Kubernetes

REST APIs

pytest

CI/CD

Airflow

Distributed systems

Communication

Job description

Astronomer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Airflow Infra team, building the critical layer between the open-source Airflow ecosystem and scalable cloud infrastructure. You will help accelerate data pipelines for global enterprises, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

The role offers a hybrid model with at least 3 days in our New York City office, competitive compensation, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.