Software Engineer - Data Plane Management

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 At Astronomer, we’re on a mission to make Apache Airflow the go-to standard for data orchestration, and our R&D team is at the heart of it. We’re looking for a Software Engineer (Early Career / Recent Grad) to join our Data Plane Management team, which is responsible for the ‘compute cluster’ primitive in our product, along with all the provisioned cloud & Kubernetes resources that support our customer workloads. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a role where you’re not only learning how to manage Kubernetes infrastructure at scale, but also how to do this as part of an actual product, responding to customer requirements, building APIs and tooling along the way. You’ll work wit