Software Engineer (Airflow Infrastructure)

Company: Astronomer

Location: New York, New York, USA {{REMOTE}}

Salary: $150k - $165k per year

Type: Full-time

Posted: 2026-05-27

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 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 d...

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