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Senior Software Engineer – Office of the CTO
| Company | Astronomer |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $180000 – $210000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Significant experience building software products.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Willingness to challenge the status quo and explore uncharted territories with technologies.
- Passion for dev tools, the data space, or open source technologies.
- Empathy for the customer/user experience of both Astronomer and Apache Airflow users.
- A bias for action and ability to work independently / think creatively.
Responsibilities
- Act as a ‘hacker in residence,’ rapidly prototyping and validating ideas using diverse technologies.
- Collaborate with the R&D team to envision and prototype next-gen features for managing Apache Airflow at scale.
- Identify areas for improvement and devise innovative solutions aligned with Astronomer’s long-term vision.
- Build LLM-based prototypes and features that meaningfully change the way data engineers work.
- Contribute to intellectual property, articles, and talks showcasing Astronomer’s thought leadership.
- Communicate effectively, articulating research goals, progress, and outcomes.
- Convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or other data orchestration projects.
- Demonstrated contributions to open source projects.
- Exposure to unconventional career paths or startup environments.
- Demonstrated ability to work full-stack or understand new technologies and languages quickly.
- Experience building out prototypes and early-stage products or features, particularly with LLMs, vector databases, knowledge graphs, etc.
