Data Platform Engineer
AstronomerResponsibilities
- Design and implement proof-of-concept data workflow solutions from concept through production.
- Conduct product demos and provide technical guidance to customer engineering teams.
- Contribute technical content and best practices to the Apache Airflow community.
- Gather customer insights and provide feedback to the Product team.
- Build expertise in Apache Airflow, workflow orchestration, and data engineering while collaborating across departments.
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Consulting, or a similar data-focused role.
- Understand core data engineering concepts including orchestration, ELT, Git, and Role-Based Access Control.
- Have hands-on experience or working knowledge of Apache Airflow in a customer environment.
- Ideally have experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Fivetran, or Tableau.
- Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts.
- Bring customer empathy, curiosity, patience, and a willingness to learn and experiment.
- Bonus qualifications include Python scripting, open-source data tools, production data workflow design, customer-facing technical or consultative experience, and Command Line Interface experience.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Equity component included in the compensation package.
About Astronomer
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, AI, and software to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified orchestration 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 900 of the world’s leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io Apache® and Apache Airflow® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. No endorsement by the Apache Software Foundation is implied by the use of these marks. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.