Senior Software Engineer (Airflow Infrastructure)
Company: Astronomer
Location: New York, New York, USA {{REMOTE}}
Salary: $200k - $230k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-15
About this role
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Airflow Infra team, part of Astro, our flagship cloud platform
- You’ll be building the critical layer that connects the open-source Airflow ecosystem to enterprise-grade, massively scalable cloud infrastructure
- Your work will directly influence how global organizations orchestrate data pipelines at scale—making them faster, more reliable, and easier to manage
- If you’re driven by impact, excited by scale, and ready to work on the kind of infrastructure challenges that push the boundaries of what’s possible in cloud-native systems, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for
- Engineer backend services with high quality, maintainable and well tested code
- Partner with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve
- Regularly engage in code reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Optimize the performance, reliability and scalability of existing backend services
- Investigate, prototype and propose ideas to improve user experience
- Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility
- Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot and debug to solve incidents
### Benefits
- Remote friendly, work from anywhere
- If you’re in a city with an office, it’s there (and stocked with snacks) when you need it
- Co-workers in over 40 states and 15 countries around the world
- Health, dental, and vision insurance at little to no cost for individuals, and at competitive rates for your dependents
- Disability and life insurance policies in case something happens
- Unlimited vacation - we do track vacation days and actively encourage people to take it (on average, Astronomers take 20 days of vacation per year)
- Parental leave
- Laptop of your choice, and a stipend to help with your work-from-home setup
- Monthly $170 pre-tax stipend intended to cover your cellphone a...