Job Overview
Location
New York City
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
July 10, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • 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.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products.
- • Strong proficiency in Python, Golang and 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.
🏖️ Benefits
- • The estimated salary for this role ranges from $200,000 - $230,000 based on leveling and geography, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package.
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About Astronomer, Inc.
Astronomer, Inc. provides Apache Airflow as a managed cloud service and enterprise platform. The company maintains the open-source workflow orchestration project, offers commercial support, and delivers a control plane that lets data teams deploy, monitor, and scale directed acyclic graphs across Kubernetes clusters. Its product suite includes Astro, a fully hosted Airflow environment with role-based access, CI/CD hooks, and usage observability. Customers use the software to schedule Python and SQL data pipelines, connect on-premise and cloud databases, and ensure reliable data delivery for analytics and machine-learning workloads. Astronomer is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and serves global enterprises.
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