Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

Astronomer
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 210,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Written and verbal communication","Collaborative mindset","Distributed systems understanding"]

Build and evolve core backend systems for Astro’s Core Platform, helping shape the architecture that powers the Public API, authentication, billing, and alerting frameworks. Collaborate with front-end, product, and customers to deliver customer-facing capabilities and improve platform usability, reliability, and scalability. Work with distributed systems challenges and develop services in Go, orchestrated on Kubernetes, alongside AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery.

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Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

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Job Summary

Build and evolve core backend systems for Astro’s Core Platform, helping shape the architecture that powers the Public API, authentication, billing, and alerting frameworks. Collaborate with front-end, product, and customers to deliver customer-facing capabilities and improve platform usability, reliability, and scalability. Work with distributed systems challenges and develop services in Go, orchestrated on Kubernetes, alongside AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery.
Location: New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Contribute to Astro Platform architecture and components through implementation and architectural participation.
  • •Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements and iterate on features used across the product and engineering org.
  • •Deliver customer-facing features such as public APIs and the technology behind Astro infrastructure, working with front-end developers, product management, and customers.
  • •Improve platform usability, reliability, and scalability.
  • •Work on core systems that power Astro’s public API, authentication, billing, and alerting frameworks.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 210,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Track record building performant, scalable, reliable backend systems.
  • •Experience developing services with Go and orchestrating dependencies on Kubernetes.
  • •Familiarity with SQL databases (Postgres; Spanner experience a plus).
  • •Advanced understanding of distributed systems concepts and practices.
  • •Ability to use AI coding assistants and LLMs to accelerate development (e.g., prototyping, testing, refactoring, documentation).
Skills:Written and verbal communicationCollaborative mindsetDistributed systems understanding
Tech Stack:Apache AirflowGoKubernetesSQLPostgresSpannerClaudeCursorGeminiLLMs

Company Brief

Astronomer
Develops Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow to build, run, and monitor data pipelines at scale, helping enterprises operationalize analytics and production AI.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series D
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2018
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