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# Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

- **Company:** Astronomer, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe Creative Cloud, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Apache HTTP Server, User Authentication, Automation of Tests, Cursor, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Large Language Models, AI Coding Agents, Backend, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Claude, Google Gemini, Code Restructuring
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-software-engineer-core-platform-new-york-ny--3e4e49a2-71c6-44ce-a3b2-9b37ab82bbb5

## About the Role

Software Engineering, Apache, Adobe Product Family, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Authentication, Software Engineering, Application Programming Interface (API), Research & Development (R&D), Billing, Production Systems, * 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.