Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products
• Strong proficiency in Python or Golang
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of and experience with integrating with RESTful APIs and distributed systems
• Comfortable with testing frameworks, such as pytest
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in creating technical specifications
• A passion for reliability and operational excellence
• Ability to scope work and coordinate cross-functionally to address risks and ensure successful delivery
• Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging
• Ability to adjust to change and rapid pace of development
• Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability
• Experience with Apache Airflow

What the job involves

• 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
• 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 and WiFi bills
• Yearly internal summit for all employees
• Regular access to conferences, workshops, and meetups in the ecosystem