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# Software Engineer, Airflow Infrastructure

- **Company:** Astronomer, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Software as a Service, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Systems Integration, Software Organization, Backend, Pytest, Kubernetes, Restful APIs, Software Version Control, Golang
- **Published:** August 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/950d7f20-d4b6-4aaf-bc67-ed6058a0fe66

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience building and delivering SaaS products.
 * Strong proficiency in Python or Golang.
 * Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
 * Solid understanding of and experience with integrating with RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
 * Comfortable with testing frameworks, such as pytest.
 * Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in creating technical specifications.
 * A passion for reliability and operational excellence.
 * Ability to scope work and coordinate cross-functionally to address risks and ensure successful delivery.
 * Experience with software development best practices, such as code reviews, testing, CI/CD, version control, automation and debugging.
 * Ability to adjust to change and rapid pace of development.
 * Proactive approach to identifying and addressing issues, with a focus on ownership and accountability.

Bonus points if you have:

 * Experience with Apache Airflow

## Description

* Engineer backend services with high quality, maintainable and well tested code.
 * Partner with other engineers, product, customer reliability support, and leadership to achieve business goals and define how our systems should evolve.
 * Regularly engage in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
 * Optimize the performance, reliability and scalability of existing backend services.
 * Investigate, prototype and propose ideas to improve user experience.
 * Create and maintain technical documentation for systems and processes, ensuring clarity and accessibility.
 * Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot and debug to solve incidents.


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