Senior Software Engineer

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:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer, you’ll build the application-layer services and user experiences that customers rely on every day to run and scale their data workflows.

This role sits within the Astro Private Cloud team, focused on building the Control Plane services and user experiences. You’ll design and build microservices, APIs, and UI components that power how customers deploy, configure, monitor, and operate Airflow environments at scale.

You’ll work on top of a Kubernetes-based platform, partnering closely with the core infrastructure and QA teams, but your day-to-day work will center around backend services, APIs, and customer-facing features.

This is a backend-leaning, full-stack role where you’ll have direct impact on product experience, usability, and reliability.

This role is based in New York City with a hybrid work schedule.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO:

- 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

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