Senior Software Engineer – Applications

🕒 April 20

🏢🏡 New York City – Hybrid

💵 $180k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Astronomer

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $213M Series C on 2022-03

Data Fabric • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Astronomer is a company focused on enhancing data workflows with its platform, Astro, which is built on Apache Airflow®. It offers a fully-managed platform to streamline and elevate data orchestration, from AI-driven models to data observability and ETL processes. Astronomer provides solutions for scalable, secure, and reliable data management, catering primarily to industries such as financial services, gaming, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and eCommerce. With extensive integrations and a focus on governance and infrastructure management, Astronomer helps organizations accelerate productivity and optimize business decisions.

📋 Description

• Design and build microservices and APIs that power the Control Plane (Node.js, Go, Python) and manage the lifecycle of Airflow environments (provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades) • Develop customer-facing features and UI components using React that make complex systems intuitive and easy to use • Own features end-to-end, from concept to production across APIs, backend services, and frontend interfaces • Build systems that orchestrate environment lifecycle management, including deploys, upgrades, configuration changes, and operational workflows • Partner with product managers, designers, and customers to translate real-world needs into impactful product capabilities • Improve the usability, performance, and reliability of the platform with a strong focus on customer experience • Contribute to system design and architecture decisions for control plane services, including APIs, authentication, multi-tenancy, observability, and service interactions • Collaborate with platform/infrastructure teams, while maintaining primary ownership of services and product features • Help define best practices for how engineers build and extend application services on Astro Private Cloud

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong ownership of building and shipping production systems end-to-end • Strong experience building backend services or microservices using Node.js • Experience with Golang or Python • Experience building or contributing to modern frontend applications (React.js or similar), or willingness to do so • Experience working in cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure) • Solid understanding of system design, APIs, and distributed systems • Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and influence decisions • Experience designing systems and clearly communicating architecture, such as diagrams and design docs • Experience with SQL databases such as Postgres or MySQL • Experience working with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Ability to balance technical excellence with product thinking and customer needs • Experience with security best practices across the full stack, including API controls (rate limiting, auth), Kubernetes (RBAC, Kyverno/OPA), secrets management, and container security • Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, debugging, or productivity tools) to improve engineering velocity.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity component • comprehensive benefits package