Jobs at Astronomer

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.

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.

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.

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.

Drive enterprise sales in Financial Services across the Northeastern US. Manage full sales cycle, build relationships with data and IT executives, present value propositions and demos with SEs, achieve revenue and logo targets, and expand account penetration while traveling to customer sites as needed.

Hunt and close new enterprise accounts (1000+ employees) in the Northeastern US. Lead full sales cycle from prospecting to close, deliver demos and tailored proposals, collaborate with marketing/sales engineering/product, expand existing customers, and travel periodically. Hybrid role (3 days/week in Boston or NYC).

Lead and coach a team of Enterprise Account Executives across the Northeastern US, shape territory and GTM strategy, run disciplined pipeline and forecasting processes, hire and develop talent, align cross-functionally (SE, Product, Marketing, CS) to accelerate complex platform deals and drive scalable, repeatable enterprise revenue.

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.

Deliver technical solutions and implement Astronomer products for large customers, guide Apache Airflow adoption, act as the interface between customers, sales, and product, troubleshoot distributed systems, and support cloud-native data architectures while covering EST hours and occasional travel for meetings.