About the job
Astronomer empowers data teams to transform critical software, analytics, and AI into actionable insights. As the creator of Astro, the premier unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®, we accelerate the development of reliable data products that reveal insights, unleash AI potential, and enhance data-driven applications. With over 800 of the world's leading enterprises relying on us, Astronomer enables businesses to maximize their data capabilities. Discover more at www.astronomer.io.
About This Role
Apache Airflow is widely regarded as one of the most popular open-source tools for data platforms, utilized by prominent organizations and rapidly growing startups alike—such as Airbnb, Uber, OpenAI, Anthropic, Nike, Capital One, and Disney. At Astronomer, we are proud to be the leading contributors to this project, developing commercial products that simplify its use, management, and scalability.
Our unique position as the creators of Apache Airflow grants us visibility into data as it traverses organizations—from raw ingestion to production dashboards, machine learning models, and AI applications. Utilizing this perspective, our R&D team is innovating a global context layer for data—an intelligence framework that enhances search and discovery, automates code generation for data and analytics, and facilitates root cause analysis. We believe that with the right metadata, large language models (LLMs) can be utilized effectively by data practitioners everywhere.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and building this foundational architecture and the applications surrounding it. You will tackle some of the most complex and thrilling challenges in data—such as search, information retrieval, and AI for data practitioners—while collaborating with a small but highly skilled team that cherishes velocity, creativity, and impactful contributions. This position sits at the intersection of applied research, software engineering, and product development: we seek an individual adept at navigating the full stack to successfully build, release, and scale products in this dynamic space.

