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What they do

Astronomer builds Astro, which runs Apache Airflow. Airflow is an open-source tool to write, schedule, and monitor data pipelines. Data orchestration means that each step of a pipeline runs on time and in the correct order. Astro Private Cloud runs Airflow in the customer's environment. Otto is an AI agent for Airflow work. More than 900 enterprises use Astro.

What they value

• Blaze a trail on a small team that is growing.
• Be an owner: make promises, and keep them.
• Do sensible things, and pick the right tool, not the fashionable one.
• Keep the garage door open: document systems and decisions for others.
• Work as one team, without politics or hand-offs.
• Care about reliability, and ship in small steps.

Where they hire

Of 19 Postings, 9 name New York City and 4 name London. Others name Dublin, San Francisco, San Jose, Chicago, Boston, and Germany. One Posting is in India, in Hyderabad. Most roles are hybrid, with two to four office days each week. The board marks six Postings remote, among them both Dublin roles. No Posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

Engineering has 8 of the 19 Postings, and sales has 9.

• Platform: senior and staff engineers build the cloud infrastructure that Astro, Observe, and the Astro IDE run on. These roles are open in New York, London, and Dublin.
• Core Platform: a senior engineer works on the Astro public API, authentication, billing, and alerts.
• Self-hosted platform: a principal engineer leads a platform that runs Airflow inside customer networks, also networks with no internet connection.
• Customer reliability: an engineer in Hyderabad keeps the cloud and Kubernetes side of the managed Airflow service running. The role has pager hours and paid weekend on-call.
• Sales: account executives, sales engineers, and a sales development representative.
• Marketing: a vice president of product marketing.

What they look for

All nine engineering Postings, the Hyderabad role among them, ask for Kubernetes and strong communication. Eight ask for Go, and eight ask for systems design experience. Five ask for Python, and five ask for observability tools, which show the health of running systems. Five require AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, and three more list them as a bonus. Six ask for work in a globally distributed team. Eight list Airflow experience as a bonus, not a must. Six account executive Postings ask for 5+ years of sales experience.