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Senior Software Engineer - Build, NYC

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Senior Software Engineer - Build, NYC in USA

  • Astronomer
  • Full time
  • Email
  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Design and engineer components of Astronomer’s context layer for data modeling, semantic search, retrieval, and code generation.
  • Build applied AI systems using LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval techniques for data practitioners and developer tools.
  • Solve information retrieval and search problems at global scale using knowledge of data pipelines.
  • Collaborate with R&D and product teams to turn early research concepts into product experiences.
  • Influence the architecture and technical vision for AI-driven data products.
  • Represent Astronomer through open-source contributions, technical talks, and publications.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years of software engineering experience with Python or Go.
  • Experience with LLMs, vector databases, embeddings, or other applied AI areas, or a strong desire to learn them.
  • Interest in improving data professionals’ workflows and comfort with early-stage product development and ambiguity.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex systems to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience or interest in search, information retrieval, large-scale data infrastructure, developer tools, machine learning infrastructure, or agentic systems is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Apache Airflow or other orchestration tools and demonstrated open-source contributions are preferred.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work model requiring at least three days per week in the New York City office.
  • Equity component and comprehensive benefits package.

Astronomer

Astronomer builds Astro, a unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®, designed to empower data teams in creating mission-critical software, analytics, and AI solutions. Serving over 800 leading enterprises, Astronomer accelerates the building of reliable data products that unlock insigh...

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