Software Engineer, Platform

About this role

Location

New York City

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

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 s. 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.

About this role:

At Astronomer, we’re on a mission to make Apache Airflow the go-to standard for data orchestration, and our R&D team is at the heart of it. We’re looking for a Software Engineer (Early Career / Recent Grad) join our Platform team, where you’ll work on core systems that power Astro’s Public API, authentication, billing, alerting frameworks, and ensure the platform is reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

This is a chance to build real-world production systems, collaborate with brilliant engineers, and directly impact how companies around the world manage their data. You’ll grow your skills fast, tackle challenging technical problems, and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of data infrastructure.

What you get to do:

• Contribute to the development of Astro Platform's architecture and components, with guidance from senior engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement and iterate on features used by the engineering org as a whole.
• Work with front end developers, product management and customers to deliver customer facing features such as public facing APIs and UI experiences.
• Learn and apply best practices for building reliable, scalable platform software.
• Contribute to the overall platform usability, reliability, and scalability.

What you bring to the role:

• An interest in building performant, scalable...