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Astronomer · New York, NY · posted 103 days ago
By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 10/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.
| Employer | Astronomer |
|---|---|
| Location | New York, New York |
| Field | Technology › Software engineering |
| Level | not stated |
| Source category | Engineering, Engineering |
| Posted | 2026-07-30 (103 days ago) |
| Work arrangement | A remote or flexible location is listed |
| Pay | Not published in the source listing |
Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and power data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 900 of the world’s leading enterprises, including Datadog, American Express, Expedia, Adobe, Autodesk, Together AI, and more, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.
Astronomer’s products run on a complex, multi-cloud platform — and the scalability, and operational maturity of that platform is what we’re actively investing in. The work ahead on our Platform team isn’t about managing data or curating pipelines; it’s about building the foundational systems that everything else runs on — the kind of systems where the failure modes matter, the latency budgets are real, and getting it wrong has visible consequences for hundreds of enterprise customers.
We’re looking for a Staff-level engineer who has built production platform systems at scale before — not just consumed them. You’ve designed systems under load, reasoned carefully about failure, and made your colleagues’ lives better by giving them something solid and well-understood to build on top of. You write strategy documents and then write the code that proves them out. You’ve driven a decision through, and lived with the consequences.
This is a foundational role at a consequential moment: your work will directly shape what Astronomer’s products — Astro, Observe, and our IDE — are capable of over the next several years.
Astronomer has a healthy and complex infrastructure estate spanning multiple cloud providers, a mix of managed and self-hosted systems, and an increasingly ambitious set of requirements as our products evolve. We have a clear sense of where we need to go; we need the right person to figure out how to get there and then go build it.
This is a deeply technical role with a high bar for code, so you’re an experienced developer, ideally in Go. A substantial part of your impact also comes from setting direction: design docs, proposals, and bringing along teams you don’t manage. Prefer heads-down coding most of the week? This role may not be the best fit.
Blaze a Trail: Own and develop our platform infrastructure strategy, with the sponsorship and responsibility to match. Map out what we need, build the case, bring the affected teams along, and own the outcomes.
Be an Owner: Be directly involved in deciding what we work on and how we work on it. Make promises, and keep them.
Do Sensible Things: Make principled build vs. buy assessments and advocate for the right tools for the right job — not the fashionable ones, not the ones already in the estate just because they’re there.
Garage Door Open: Create and maintain comprehensive internal documentation and decision records for systems and processes. Participate in architectural forums and make principled, open decisions that the rest of the organization can learn from and hold us to.
A small, senior team. No direct reports; you lead through influence, not management.
Broad scope. Our control plane, CI/CD, builds and releases, observability, secrets and networking, with internal teams as your customers.
Buy-in, not authority. You’ll often need agreement from teams you don’t manage.
Distributed systems depth, grounded in practice. You have a solid working model of how production systems fail — consistency and availability tradeoffs, failure cascades, backpressure, graceful degradation. You can draw the diagram, explain the failure modes at each node, and make a reasoned argument for which ones actually matter in a given context. NALSD thinking is how you naturally approach a new system design.
Kubernetes at operator depth. You know what happens inside the scheduler and the control loop when things go wrong, because you’ve been there. You’ve operated clusters under real load, not just deployed workloads onto them.
Strong Go proficiency. The platform team writes production Go. You should be fluent: you’ve built and shipped systems in it, and you have opinions about what good Go looks like.
Multi-cloud experience, not just multi-cloud exposure. You’ve made considered architectural decisions across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure — not just consumed managed services, but evaluated tradeoffs between them and lived with those decisions in production.
A track record of influence without authority. You’ve taken a proposal to teams you don’t manage, handled real pushback, changed minds with evidence, and known when and how to escalate. You can tell us specific stories about it.
Generalist platform breadth. You’ve worked hands-on across several of: Kubernetes, CI/CD, builds and releases, observability, networking and secrets management, rather than going deep in just one.
Strong written and verbal communication. You can write a design doc that changes minds, and a postmortem that makes the organization smarter. You’ve worked effectively in a globally-distributed team.
Experience with storage primitives at the system level — you’ve reasoned about when to reach for a relational store vs. an object store vs. something else, and you have real opinions informed by real failures.
Experience working on a SaaS/PaaS product across multiple cloud providers.
Familiarity with Apache Airflow or workflow orchestration systems.
A note on level: titles vary a lot between companies, and we level on scope of influence, not title.
The estimated total compensation for this role ranges from $215,000 - $315,000, along with an equity component and a comprehensive benefits package. This range is merely an estimate, and the width of the range reflects willingness to consider candidates with broad prior seniority. Actual compensation may deviate from this range based on skills, experience, and qualifications.
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At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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How New York compares. Among the 120 largest places in New York, New York is #1 by population, #117 for homeownership (#1 = highest), #115 for long commutes (#1 = fewest), #31 for remote work (#1 = most). Its county, Kings County, is #38 of 62 counties for average pay ($59,980).
New York has 8,483,844 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 42.7% of the population of New York. It covers 300 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 28,236 people per square mile. The median age is 38.2, 4% younger than the state median (38.2 against 39.8).
The median gross rent is $1,821 a month (rent plus utilities), 12% above the state median ($1,821 against $1,621). Over a year that is 27.2% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $777,600, which is 9.7 times the median household income ($80,483); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 32.8% of households own their home, 40% below the state average (32.8% against 54.4%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.
The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area has 9,492,000 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $61,430 a year, 20% above the national median ($61,430 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (1,109,360 jobs, median $55,080); healthcare support (843,730 jobs, median $40,100); sales and related (751,110 jobs, median $47,540). The area is most specialised in healthcare support (1.8 times) and legal (1.7 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($171,990) and legal ($150,990). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Kings County was 5.3%. 63.1% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Kings County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Among workers, 21.6% drive alone, 44.0% use public transit, 9.2% walk, 16.9% work from home. 41.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 50% above the state average (41.2% against 27.4%).
41.6% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 4% above the state share (41.6% against 40.2%). 36.6% of residents were born outside the United States, 61% above the state share (36.6% against 22.8%). The poverty rate is 17.9%, 28% above the state rate (17.9% against 14.0%).
The warmest month is Jul, averaging 75°F (23.7°C), and the coolest is Jan at 34°F (1.1°C). About 1,313 mm (52 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (133 mm) and Feb the driest (95 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
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| Place ⇅ | Distance from the job city ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ | Median home value ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Commute 45+ min ⇅ | Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅ | Open jobs there ⇅ |
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| New York, NY | 0 mi | $1,821 | $777,600 | $80,483 | 41.2% | n/a | Jobs |
| Hoboken, NJ | 7 mi | $2,938 | $895,100 | $180,579 | 38.7% | n/a | Jobs |
| Jersey City, NJ | 7 mi | $2,007 | $566,900 | $97,710 | 36.0% | n/a | Jobs |
| Union City, NJ | 9 mi | $1,537 | $471,600 | $64,310 | 27.9% | n/a | — |
| Bayonne, NJ | 9 mi | $1,682 | $460,100 | $83,887 | 31.0% | n/a | — |
| West New York, NJ | 9 mi | $1,716 | $465,600 | $71,729 | 30.6% | n/a | — |
| Secaucus, NJ | 11 mi | $2,391 | $571,900 | $139,821 | 33.9% | n/a | Jobs |
| Cliffside Park, NJ | 11 mi | $1,837 | $588,200 | $93,452 | 33.1% | n/a | — |
| Edgewater, NJ | 11 mi | $2,579 | $715,700 | $124,050 | 43.6% | n/a | Jobs |
| Fairview, NJ | 11 mi | $1,694 | $511,400 | $63,606 | 25.4% | n/a | — |
| Kearny, NJ | 11 mi | $1,720 | $459,400 | $79,154 | 26.6% | n/a | — |
| Woodmere, NY | 12 mi | $2,720 | $975,400 | $172,537 | 45.7% | n/a | — |
| North Valley Stream, NY | 12 mi | $3,059 | $613,800 | $142,733 | 36.1% | n/a | — |
| Valley Stream, NY | 12 mi | $2,124 | $616,100 | $133,190 | 34.5% | n/a | — |
| Elmont, NY | 12 mi | $2,209 | $602,900 | $114,217 | 35.9% | n/a | — |
| Harrison, NJ | 13 mi | $2,226 | $505,800 | $93,013 | 42.0% | n/a | — |
| Newark, NJ | 13 mi | $1,392 | $373,700 | $52,060 | 25.1% | n/a | Jobs |
| North Arlington, NJ | 13 mi | $1,738 | $474,500 | $94,201 | 29.5% | n/a | — |
| Floral Park, NY | 13 mi | $2,243 | $789,600 | $150,084 | 32.3% | n/a | — |
| Fort Lee, NJ | 13 mi | $2,270 | $448,000 | $107,274 | 34.3% | n/a | — |
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How far New York, NY is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.
| From ⇅ | Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅ | Population of that city ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| New York, NY | 0 mi | 8,483,844 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 77 mi | 1,579,706 |
| Columbus, OH | 479 mi | 914,802 |
| Charlotte, NC | 532 mi | 903,844 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 646 mi | 885,860 |
| Chicago, IL | 718 mi | 2,711,226 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 834 mi | 977,670 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 1,327 mi | 697,125 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,371 mi | 1,307,930 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 1,401 mi | 963,194 |
| Houston, TX | 1,419 mi | 2,328,253 |
| Austin, TX | 1,512 mi | 979,539 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1,583 mi | 1,479,835 |
| Denver, CO | 1,625 mi | 718,877 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 2,141 mi | 1,642,323 |
| Seattle, WA | 2,407 mi | 754,195 |
| San Diego, CA | 2,427 mi | 1,389,526 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 2,459 mi | 3,857,263 |
| San Jose, CA | 2,550 mi | 990,138 |
| San Francisco, CA | 2,602 mi | 830,235 |
| City ⇅ | Straight-line distance ⇅ | Open jobs ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn, NY | 1 mi | 33 |
| Jersey City, NJ | 7 mi | 113 |
| Manhattan, NY | 8 mi | 17 |
| Iselin, NJ | 21 mi | 2 |
| Mahwah, NJ | 31 mi | 2 |
| Deer Park, NY | 33 mi | 17 |
| Darien, CT | 38 mi | 14 |
| Lakewood, NJ | 42 mi | 2 |
| Marlton, NJ | 74 mi | 15 |
| Bethlehem, PA | 75 mi | 3 |
| Fort Washington, PA | 75 mi | 2 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 77 mi | 215 |
| Atlantic City, NJ | 93 mi | 6 |
| Wilmington, DE | 106 mi | 8 |
| Newark, DE | 118 mi | 8 |
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