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Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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Astronomer

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United States , New York City ▼

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200000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year
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At Astronomer, our R&D organization is dedicated to providing an exceptional experience in operating data orchestration based on Apache Airflow at many of the world’s largest companies. We are building out a world-class Observability team to deliver data observability capabilities that provide our customers visibility, reliability, and actionable insights into their data pipelines and products across some of the world’s largest enterprises.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead the end-to-end architecture and evolution of major platform components
  • Build scalable, reliable, and performant features that provide visibility into customer data pipelines
  • Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams
  • Write high-quality, maintainable code
  • Set and champion engineering standards
  • Help improve and evolve the observability platform’s tooling, infrastructure, and processes
  • Lead and coordinate responses to complex production incidents
  • Proactively identify technical opportunities, risks, and gaps
  • Mentor engineers of all levels

Requirements:

  • Strong technical experience building complex distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience designing, developing, and scaling production infrastructure
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Focus on delivering customer value
  • Enthusiasm for contributing to a healthy, inclusive engineering culture
  • Comfort working in areas of high ambiguity

Nice to have:

  • Experience building or scaling data observability products
  • Familiarity with Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestrators
  • Background in observability, monitoring, or infrastructure at scale (e.g., Datadog, Honeycomb, or similar)
What we offer:
  • equity component
  • comprehensive benefits package

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 01, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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