Senior Software Engineer - Airflow Infrastructure, NYC
Company: Astronomer
Location: New York City
Salary: $210k - $250k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-08-26
About this role
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps 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 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit [www.astronomer.io](http://www.astronomer.io).
## About this role:
At Astronomer, we’re redefining how companies run Apache Airflow at scale. Our R&D organization is home to some of the most innovative minds in cloud infrastructure and open-source software.
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.
Hybrid Work Model: For this role, you will embrace a flexible hybrid work model with at least 3 days per week in our New York City office.
## What you get to do:
- 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 us...