Astronomer
Principal Software Engineer
$277K–$390K
New York City · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience at Staff, Senior Staff, or Principal level.
About the job
Provides technical leadership and architecture for a self-contained, cloud-agnostic platform that provisions and operates Apache Airflow on-premises, including in air-gapped environments.
What you'll do
- Define and build the platform’s control plane, data plane, and resilient connections between them.
- Architect platform APIs and observability, ensuring compatibility across connected and isolated deployments.
- Set technical direction, align with stakeholders, and mentor engineers through design reviews and technical contributions.
What they ask for
- Proven success building production-grade infrastructure control planes and designing APIs for customer workflows and interfaces.
- Practical experience with observability stacks, Kubernetes, custom Kubernetes Operators (CRDs), Helm, and the Kubernetes API.
- Hands-on architecture across isolated environments, public clouds, Red Hat OpenShift, and bare-metal infrastructure.
- Expert software development skills and deep knowledge of distributed state stores, concurrency, and network security patterns.
Pay
$277,000 - $390,000 (total compensation)
Tools
Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure
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