Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

Benefits

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Salary

$215K-$250K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

99% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Equity

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure New York City, New York, USA, San Francisco Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io . About this role: Astronomer's products run on a complex, multi-cloud platform - and the reliability, scalability, and operational maturity of that platform is what we're actively investing in. The work ahead on our Platform team isn't about managing data or curating pipelines; it's about building the foundational systems that everything else runs on - the kind of systems where the failure modes matter, the latency budgets are real, and getting it wrong has visible consequences for hundreds of enterprise customers. We're looking for a Staff+-level engineer who has built production platform systems at scale before - not just consumed them. You've designed systems under load, reasoned carefully about failure, and made your colleagues' lives better by giving them something solid and well-understood to build on top of. You write strategy documents and then write the code that proves them out. You've been the person who made the call, and lived with the consequences. This is a foundational role at a consequential moment: your work will directly shape what Astronomer's

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