# Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform 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: Senior
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $210K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astronomer/89a60cf7-cdde-45b4-b09c-c0e527217cb0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/astronomer-senior-software-engineer-core-platform/

## About the role

At Astronomer, we’re on a mission to make Apache Airflow the go-to standard for data orchestration, and our R&D team is at the heart of it. We’re looking for a Software Engineer to our Core Platform team, where you’ll work on core systems that power Astro’s Public API, authentication, billing, alerting frameworks, and ensure the platform is reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

## What they're looking for

- A track record in building performant, scalable, and reliable backend systems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative mindset
- Experience in developing services with Go, interacting with dependencies and service orchestration on Kubernetes
- Familiarity with SQL databases (Postgres, with Spanner experience also a plus)
- Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and NALSD
- Experience rationally leveraging AI coding assistants and LLMs (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Gemini) to accelerate development — from prototyping and automated testing to code refactoring and documentation

Tags: Engineering