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Principal Software Engineer at Astronomer

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$277,000 – $390,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
New York, New York
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Astronomer is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership, architectural vision, and mentorship for its core engineering group. The role owns the end-to-end design and implementation of a cloud-agnostic, self-contained platform that provisions and orchestrates Apache Airflow instances on-premises, including control-plane and data-plane services, extensible APIs, observability, and architectures for isolated or air-gapped environments. The position requires extensive enterprise infrastructure experience, control-plane and API productization, cloud-native observability, Kubernetes, hybrid-cloud systems design, and advanced software development skills, with an estimated total compensation of $277,000 to $390,000 plus equity and benefits.

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