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title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure at Astronomer'
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# Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure at Astronomer

- **Company:** Astronomer
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astronomer/0e7a8d92-5546-47cf-a3f1-ecab19088382

## 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 power data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 900 of the world’s leading enterprises, including Datadog, American Express, Expedia, Adobe, Autodesk, Together AI, and more, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit [www.astronomer.io](http://www.astronomer.io).

## About this role

Astronomer’s products run on a complex, multi-cloud platform — and the scalability, and operational maturity of that platform is what we’re actively investing in. The work ahead on our Platform team isn’t about managing data or curating pipelines; it’s about building the foundational systems that everything else runs on — the kind of systems where the failure modes matter, the latency budgets are real, and getting it wrong has visible consequences for hundreds of enterprise customers.

We’re looking for a Staff+-level engineer who has built production platform systems at scale before — not just consumed them. You’ve designed systems under load, reasoned carefully about failure, and made your colleagues’ lives better by giving them something solid and well-understood to build on top of. You write strategy documents and then write the code that proves them out. You’ve been the person who made the call, and lived with the consequences.

This is a foundational role at a consequential moment: your work will directly shape what Astronomer’s products — Astro, Observe, and our IDE — are capable of over the next several years.

## What you get to do

Astronomer has a healthy and complex infrastructure estate spanning multiple cloud providers, a mix of managed and self-hosted systems, and an increasingly ambitious set of requirements as our products evolve. We have a clear sense of where we need to go; we need the right person to figure out how to get there and then go build it.

This is very much a technical role — you’ll be just as involved in building these systems as in specifying and designing them. We’re not looking for someone to write strategy documents; we’re looking for someone who writes the strategy and the code, and who has done exactly that before at scale.

- Blaze a Trail: Own and develop our platform infrastructure strategy, with the sponsorship and responsibility to match. Map out what we need, make the calls, and own the outcomes.
- Be an Owner: Be directly involved in deciding what we work on and how we work on it. Make promises, and keep them.
- Do Sensible Things: Make principled build vs. buy assessments and advocate for the right tools for the right job — not the fashionable ones, not the ones already in the estate just because they’re there.
- Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records for systems and processes. Participate in architectural forums and make principled, open decisions that the rest of the organisation can learn from and hold us to.

## What you bring to the role

- Distributed systems depth, grounded in practice. You have a solid working model of how production systems fail — consistency and availability tradeoffs, failure cascades, backpressure, graceful degradation. You can draw the diagram, explain the failure modes at each node, and make a reasoned argument for which ones actually matter in a given context. [NALSD](https://sre.google/workbook/non-abstract-design/) thinking is how you naturally approach a new system design.
- Kubernetes at operator depth. You know what happens inside the scheduler and the control loop when things go wrong, because you’ve been there. You’ve operated clusters under real load, not just deployed workloads onto them.
- Strong Go proficiency. The platform team writes production Go. You should be fluent: you’ve built and shipped systems in it, and you have opinions about what good Go looks like.
- Multi-cloud experience, not just multi-cloud exposure. You’ve made considered architectural decisions across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure — not just consumed managed services, but evaluated tradeoffs between them and lived with those decisions in production.
- Experience defining requirements and driving technology choices across an engineering organization. You’ve been the person in the room who frames the decision correctly, not just the one who executes it.
- Strong written and verbal communication. You can write a design doc that changes minds, and a postmortem that makes the organisation smarter. You’ve worked effectively in a globally-distributed team.

The estimated total compensation for this role ranges from €140,000 - €215,000, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. This range is merely an estimate, and the width of the range reflects willingness to consider candidates with broad prior seniority. Actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.

Bonus points if you have

- Experience with storage primitives at the system level — you’ve reasoned about when to reach for a relational store vs. an object store vs. something else, and you have real opinions informed by real failures.
- Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers.
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration systems.

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. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/astronomer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astronomer)

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