Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
AstronomerBase Salary
$210k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture and implementation of Astro Platform components.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver product and engineering features.
- Work with frontend developers, product management, and customers on public APIs and Astro infrastructure.
- Improve the platform’s usability, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Track record building performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems.
- Experience developing services with Go and orchestrating services on Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with SQL databases, particularly Postgres; Spanner experience is a plus.
- Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and NALSD.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and LLMs such as Claude, Cursor, and Gemini for development tasks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- Open source contributions are a bonus.
- Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrator experience is a bonus.
- Experience with billing, authentication, and related critical business systems is a bonus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Equity component
- Hybrid work arrangement
Tech Stack
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.