Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform
Astronomer27 days ago
Base 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 builds Astro, a data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow that lets data teams run, monitor, and govern complex pipelines across clouds. It sells managed Airflow and enterprise tooling via subscriptions, backed by expert support and services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company focuses on enterprises operationalizing analytics and AI workloads.