Product · Full-time · CA, United States of America
Astronomer designed Astro, a modern data orchestration platform, powered by Apache Airflow™. Astro enables companies to place Apache Airflow at the core of their data operations, providing ease of use, scalability, and enterprise-grade security, to ensure the reliable delivery of mission-critical data pipelines.
We’re a globally-distributed and rapidly growing venture-backed team of learners, innovators and collaborators. Our mission is to build an Enterprise-grade product that makes it easy for data teams at Fortune 500’s and startups alike to adopt Apache Airflow. As a member of our team, you will be at the forefront of the industry as we strive to deliver the world's data.
Your background may be unconventional; as long as you have the essential qualifications, we encourage you to apply. While having "bonus" qualifications makes for a strong candidate, Astronomer values diverse experiences. Many of us at Astronomer haven't followed traditional career paths, and we welcome it if yours hasn't either.
Astronomer is looking for a product leader to drive our roadmap around core infrastructure configuration on Astro, Astronomer’s flagship data orchestration cloud service. At its core, Astro is a managed Apache Airflow service that abstracts customers from having to worry about the underlying infrastructure that powers their data pipelines. With that said, the data processing and logic of an Airflow DAG can by definition vary in complexity. While some customers “set it and forget it”, others need to optimize things like worker size and worker node type, and there are rarely one-size-fits-all solutions.
We’re looking for someone to drive our data plane engine roadmap who is passionate about making infrastructure configuration easy. You’ll spend your time answering questions like: What Airflow components can and should we autoscale, and based on what logic? What infrastructure incidents should our customers be alerted on and what should they do about it? How should we price that new component we’re adding to the data plane?
If you have experience with infrastructure products and are interested in taking your technical skill set “above the stack” to make infrastructure decisions a breeze for our end users – this job is for you. We’re looking for someone who has a strong technical background, has a knack for simplifying complex topics, and can drive the team towards solutions in areas that have particularly challenging tradeoffs.
If done well, customers fall in love with Astro not just because their mission-critical data runs on time, every time – but because we guide users through every step of the way.
What you bring to the role:
The estimated salary for this role ranges from $180,000 - $210,000, along with an equity component. 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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