--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform at Astronomer' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-core-platform-astronomer-new-york-fchfq15nsq89' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform at Astronomer - **Company:** Astronomer - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astronomer/89a60cf7-cdde-45b4-b09c-c0e527217cb0 ## Job description 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 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 to our Core 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. Astro’s Core Platform exists at the heart of all our products; you get to touch all aspects of product, backend and our engineering practice. What you get to do: - Contribute to the development of Astro Platform's architecture and components, through implementation and architectural participation. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement and iterate on features used in our product and 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 the technology behind Astro’s own infrastructure. - Contribute to the overall platform usability, reliability, and scalability. What you bring to the role: - A track record in building performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative mindset. - Experience in developing services with Go, interacting with dependencies and service orchestration on Kubernetes. - Familiarity with SQL databases (Postgres, with Spanner experience also a plus) - Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and [NALSD](https://sre.google/workbook/non-abstract-design/). - Experience rationally leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini) to accelerate development — from prototyping and automated testing to code refactoring and documentation. Bonus points if you have: - Contributions to open source projects. - Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators. - Experience with critical business functions such as billing, authentication, and systems and practices around this area. The estimated salary for this role ranges from $210,000 - $250,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. This range is merely an estimate; actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications. #LI-Fulltime #LI-Hybrid At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. ## About Astronomer ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Astronomer provides the leading enterprise platform for Apache Airflow, enabling organizations to build, run, and observe mission-critical data pipelines for analytics, AI, and agentic workflows. - **Entity Type**: Private (funded, Series C) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (global team across 4 continents, 20+ countries) - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Not publicly listed on primary sources (founded by a team of Airflow experts) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry/Industries**: Data infrastructure, data orchestration, AI infrastructure - **Target Customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Fortune 500 companies including Visa, Datadog, American Express, Expedia; 900+ enterprises total) - **Mission/Purpose**: To build the infrastructure layer that powers the agentic era, making production-grade data orchestration scalable and observable for the world's leading enterprises. ## Products & Services - **Astro (The Astro Platform)**: A unified enterprise platform for Apache Airflow. Includes a hardened runtime, an agent-based executor (Astro Executor), and an optimization layer for managing health and resources across any major cloud. Features include zero-downtime upgrades, deployments as code (GitOps), native data observability, and AI-powered root cause analysis. - **Otto**: An AI agent built specifically for Apache Airflow. It writes DAGs, investigates failures, plans upgrades, and learns from a team's private memory and Astronomer's proprietary expertise. - **Astro CLI & Astro IDE**: Tools for local and remote development, allowing teams to run Airflow locally or develop in a browser with no setup overhead. - **Astronomer's Open Source Stewardship**: The company is the commercial steward of Apache Airflow, with 10 PMC members on staff and having driven every Airflow release since 2018. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $379.5M across 17 rounds; Annual Revenue of $35.0M (estimated by third-party data). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Insight Partners, Redpoint, and others (specific lead investors for Series C not detailed in search results). Key customers include Visa, Datadog, American Express, and Expedia. - **Growth Signals**: 900+ enterprise customers; 80K+ organizations use Apache Airflow globally; headcount grew +1181.9% year-over-year to 445 employees; 30M+ monthly downloads of Airflow; 22 open roles as of the search date. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep Airflow Expertise**: Astronomer is the commercial steward of Apache Airflow, with 10 PMC members and a history of driving every major release since 2018. This gives them unparalleled insight and influence over the core technology. - **Purpose-Built for Enterprise**: Astro is the only platform built specifically for Airflow at scale, offering features like zero-downtime upgrades, a hardened runtime, and an agent-based executor that handles higher concurrency and automatic failure recovery. - **AI-Native Orchestration**: Their product Otto is the only AI agent built for Airflow, and their infrastructure is designed to support production-grade AI and agentic workflows, not just data pipelines. - **Native Observability**: Integrated data observability, task-level lineage, and AI-powered root cause analysis eliminate the need for separate monitoring tools. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic Era Infrastructure**: Astronomer is pivoting to become the "orchestration layer for the agentic era," believing that every AI initiative depends on reliable data pipelines. They are building the context layer that allows enterprises to run agentic AI in production. - **Continued Airflow Innovation**: They remain committed to advancing Apache Airflow as the industry standard for orchestration, while simultaneously building proprietary features (like Otto) on top. - **Global Expansion & Hiring**: With a globally distributed team and 22 open roles, they are aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, and GTM to capture the growing demand for AI-driven data orchestration. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Work**: "Every Fortune 500 AI initiative, every real-time analytics platform, every decision-making system that matters — it all starts with pipelines." Employees work on infrastructure that powers the world's most critical data and AI systems. - **Open Source Leadership**: As stewards of Apache Airflow, engineers contribute to a project used by millions of developers and 80K+ organizations. - **Collaborative Culture**: "Engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success operate as one team. Handoff culture doesn't exist here." The company emphasizes collaboration without politics. - **Work Environment**: HQ in NYC with offices globally. Some roles are in-office, others are flexible. The team is distributed across 4 continents and 20+ countries. - **Perks**: Top-tier health coverage (little to no cost), unlimited PTO (with a stated culture of actually using it), generous parental leave, annual wellness day off, wellness programs, and disability/life insurance. - **Engineering Culture**: The engineering team focuses on reliability, iterative shipping, and writing about hard problems. They build infrastructure, tooling, and platform features for production-grade data orchestration. ## Sources 1. [astronomer.io](https://www.astronomer.io/) 2. [astronomer.io/about-us](https://www.astronomer.io/about-us/) 3. [astronomer.io/careers](https://www.astronomer.io/careers/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/astronomer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/astronomer) 5. 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