Software Engineer (Infrastructure and Systems)
Company: Astronomer
Location: New York, New York, USA {{REMOTE}}
Salary: $144k - $160k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-20
About this role
- Software Engineers in our Infrastructure and Systems teams help build and operate the platform underneath Astro — including Astronomer’s multi-tenant cloud platform and Astro Private Cloud, our self-hosted distribution for Fortune 500s, financial institutions, and other regulated organizations that run Airflow inside their own private clouds or air-gapped data centers
- The team owns the problems that keep that platform running at scale: provisioning, automation, reliability, security, and observability across Kubernetes, networking, cloud accounts (AWS/GCP/Azure), and CI/CD
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer to help build and operate that infrastructure — on our multi-tenant cloud platform, on Astro Private Cloud, or both; your specific team will be determined later in the interview process based on need and fit
- You’ll get hands-on experience with Kubernetes, cloud networking, infrastructure-as-code, and production operations from day one — with the guidance of senior engineers as you build toward independent ownership. If you’re early in your infrastructure career and want to learn by working on real, production-grade systems, this is the team for you
- This posting covers both Software Engineer I and Software Engineer II — the level you’re hired at depends on experience and demonstrated scope
- Write, test, and maintain infrastructure code and platform services — from Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Kubernetes manifests/operators, CI/CD pipelines) to backend services in Golang and/or TypeScript — following team standards
- Participate in code and infrastructure-change reviews, growing your judgment on what “production-ready” looks like
- Help operate and troubleshoot cloud resources, Kubernetes clusters, networking, and observability tooling — whether they run in a public cloud account or a self-managed/private cloud environment
- Identify and fix bugs, misconfigurations, and small-scope incidents, with support from senior teammates
- Maintain runbook...