Senior Software Engineer - Airflow Infrastructure, NYC
AstronomerBase Salary
$210k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build high-quality, maintainable, well-tested backend services.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to evolve systems and achieve business goals.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
- Optimize the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend services.
- Investigate, prototype, and propose improvements to user experience.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and troubleshoot and debug incidents.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products.
- Strong proficiency in Python or Golang.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and working with distributed systems.
- Familiarity with testing frameworks such as pytest.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience creating technical specifications.
- Ability to scope work, coordinate cross-functionally, identify risks, and ensure successful delivery.
- Experience with software development practices including code reviews, testing, automation, and debugging.
- Ability to adapt to change and a rapid development pace, with a proactive ownership-oriented approach.
- Experience with Apache Airflow is a bonus.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work model requiring at least three days per week in the New York City office.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Equity component.
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.