Senior Software Engineer - Build, NYC

As a Software Engineer on this team, you'll help design and build a global context layer for data—an intelligence layer that powers search and discovery, code generation for data and analytics, and automated root cause analysis. You'll work on some of the hardest and most exciting challenges in data—search, information retrieval, and AI for data practitioners—while collaborating with a small, highly skilled team that values velocity, creativity, and impact.

What You Will Do

Shape the future of AI for data engineering - build intelligent systems that understand, reason about, and optimize the flow of data across entire organizations. Design and engineer the brain of Astronomer’s context layer, crafting components that power data modeling, semantic search, retrieval, and code generation.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role sits at the intersection of applied research, software engineering, and product: we think it takes someone who can work across the stack to build, release, and scale products successfully in this space. You'll influence the technical vision and architecture for the next generation of AI-driven data products, and represent Astronomer in the community through open-source contributions, technical talks, and publications.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience with Python or Go
• Empathy for users, and a deep interest in improving the workflows of data professionals.
• Familiarity with early-stage product development; comfortable working with ambiguity in a fast-changing field.
• Experience with LLMs, vector databases, embeddings, or other applied AI areas—or a strong desire to dive in.
• A creative, experimental mindset: you enjoy exploring uncharted areas, validating hypotheses, and learning through iteration.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills—you can explain complex systems clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A collaborative approach and comfort working in an evolving, research-driven environment where ideas move quickly.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Equity component
• Estimated total compensation for this role ranges from $210,000 - $250,000