# Principal Software Engineer at Astronomer

- Company: Astronomer
- What the company does: Apache Airflow® orchestrates the world’s data, ML, and AI pipelines. Astro is the best way to build, run, and observe them at scale. Backed by Insight and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.astronomer.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $277K to $390K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astronomer/b04f591d-7752-4691-8d8e-28cf9ac276fd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/astronomer-principal-software-engineer/

## About the role

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and team mentorship for our core engineering group. In this role, you will be the primary architect and public face of a cloud-agnostic software platform that helps enterprise customers provision, scale, and orchestrate Apache Airflow instances completely on-premises within their own environments.

Tags: Engineering