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# Software Engineer, Core Platform

- **Company:** Astronomer, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Airflow, Automation of Tests, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, SQL Databases, Large Language Models, Backend, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Code Restructuring
- **Published:** August 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/7e820f31-9382-48e2-8ae9-e8d2e0c5c90e

## About the Role

* 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.

Bonus points if you have:

 * Contributions to open source projects.
 * Experience with Apache Airflow or related workflow orchestrators.
 * Experience with critical business functions such as billing, authentication, and systems and practices around this area.

## Description

* Contribute to the development of Astro Platform's architecture and components, through implementation and architectural participation.
 * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements, implement and iterate on features used in our product and by the engineering org as a whole.
 * Work with front end developers, product management and customers to deliver customer facing features such as public facing APIs and the technology behind Astro's own infrastructure.
 * Contribute to the overall platform usability, reliability, and scalability.


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