Jobs at Astronomer

Build and ship full-stack features for Astro across web, backend services, and APIs. Write, test, and maintain frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend (Go/TypeScript/Python) code, participate in code reviews and on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, document work, and collaborate with senior engineers to deliver production-ready software.

Build and maintain core platform systems powering Astro's public API, authentication, billing, and alerting. Design scalable backend services, collaborate with product and frontend teams, improve platform reliability, and contribute to architecture and operational practices.

Provide expert Apache Airflow support to customers, troubleshoot and optimize Airflow deployments, work with Kubernetes and cloud providers, collaborate with customers and engineering, maintain pager/on-call coverage, and contribute to open-source and internal projects.

Hunt and close new enterprise accounts: prospect, qualify, demo, propose, and lead full sales cycles. Collaborate with marketing, sales engineering, and product; stay current on industry trends to position Astro and support customer success.

Design, build, and own control-plane systems and APIs that provision, manage, and secure infrastructure for Airflow at scale. Lead architecture, observability, and security efforts, participate in on-call incident response, and mentor engineers while driving operational rigor and lifecycle management across multi-tenant and air-gapped environments.

Operate, monitor, and maintain Astronomer's managed Airflow platform and underlying cloud/Kubernetes infrastructure. Troubleshoot customer environments, participate in on-call rotation, build monitoring/automation, improve observability, and work directly with customers to meet SLAs and drive reliability.

Design, build, test, and operate Astronomer’s production platform at scale. Own CI/CD, deployment, reliability, and observability practices; collaborate cross-functionally to set platform standards, participate in incident management, and document systems and processes.

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platform team (management layer and control infrastructure) of a SaaS data orchestration product. Engage strategic customers and cross-functional teams to define requirements, drive development, and support go-to-market activities for reliable, high-availability platform features.

As a Sales Engineer at Astronomer, guide clients in deploying data workflows, conduct demos, and influence product direction. Collaborate to solve data challenges and grow expertise in data engineering.

Lead product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platform team powering Astro. Engage customers and cross-functional teams to define use cases and requirements, drive design and delivery with engineering, and support sales and marketing enablement for a multi-cloud, data orchestration SaaS product.

Architect, implement, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Apache Airflow and the Astronomer platform. Deliver post-sales Airflow implementations, refactor DAGs, build custom operators/hooks, monitor and tune workflows, advise customers on best practices, and relay product feedback to internal teams.

Design, build, test, and deploy scalable production platform infrastructure. Own CI/CD, observability, and reliability practices; collaborate cross-functionally, participate in incident management, create documentation, and drive platform engineering standards and automation.

Design and build Astronomer's AI-driven context layer for data: implement semantic search, retrieval, embeddings, and code-generation tooling. Collaborate with R&D and product to turn research into production, scale systems globally, and contribute to open-source and community outreach.

Lead architecture and implementation of a self-contained control plane and data plane to provision and manage on‑premises Apache Airflow across hybrid and air‑gapped environments. Design extensible APIs, telemetry/observability, Kubernetes operators and deployments, ensure security and backward compatibility, and provide technical leadership, design reviews, and senior mentorship.

Lead architecture, design, and scaling of an observability platform; build reliable, performant features for pipeline visibility; drive incident response, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver production-grade observability capabilities.

Lead technical sales, conduct demos, and provide tailored solutions for data teams, enhancing DataOps strategies and influencing product development.

Design, build, and operate foundational, multi-cloud platform systems. Own platform strategy, make build vs. buy decisions, write design docs and code, ensure reliability at scale, document decisions and run architectural forums, and improve operational maturity for enterprise-grade SaaS platform services.

Lead design and implementation of Astronomer’s multi-cloud platform infrastructure. Own platform strategy, build production-grade distributed systems (Kubernetes/Go), make architecture decisions, document designs and postmortems, and drive cross-team technical choices to scale a SaaS/PaaS offering for enterprise customers.

Design, build, and own Astronomer’s multi-cloud platform infrastructure. Lead architecture and implementation of production-scale distributed systems, operate Kubernetes clusters under load, write design docs and postmortems, make tradeoff decisions, and drive cross-team technology choices to improve platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

Build and maintain backend services connecting Apache Airflow to enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure. Optimize performance, reliability, and scalability; write well-tested code; collaborate cross-functionally; produce technical documentation; participate in on-call rotation and incident troubleshooting; drive operational excellence and CI/CD best practices.