Solutions Airflow Specialist

Astronomer helps organizations adopt Apache Airflow, the market’s leading open-source data workflow orchestration platform. We’re a fast-growing startup pushing forward to make Apache Airflow the open source standard for data orchestration.

As a Solutions Airflow Specialist on our team, you will get a front row seat to almost all aspects of the company and help ensure that our growth is guided by strong technical alignment with the needs of our customers and users. You will be responsible for on-boarding new customers into our Astronomer Cloud platform and guide them through their journey to make them successful. You will grow to have a deep understanding of both Apache Airflow and Astronomer as you work with organizations ranging from seed stage startups to Fortune 50 enterprises.

You’ll be able to speak to and deliver solutions around data orchestration, Apache Airflow and the Astronomer platform. You'll work with your fellow solutions team members to build solutions integrating multiple products and open source projects. You'll be a trusted advisor and help develop solutions across all types of use cases. Last but not least, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with the Apache Airflow project, a thriving open source community with over 1000 contributors.

Every Solutions Engineer will grow to become an Airflow expert and be a trusted advisor to organizations looking to put their data in motion.

Responsibilities

• Work with new Astronomer Cloud customers to ensure successful onboarding onto the Astronomer Cloud Platform.
• Collaborate with solutions teams on customer projects to develop airflow pipelines
• Become a subject matter expert on the competitive landscape of workflow orchestration
• Work cross functionally within the organization to create and maintain deep technical content for the larger Apache Airflow community
• Act as a liaison, collecting feedback from the field to relay back to the Product team

A strong candidate is:

• Excited about Airflow and Data Orchestration and how other technologies are used successfully with Airflow
• Enthusiastic about solving data problems
• A great communicator
• Familiar with ETL, Data Orchestration, Big Data concepts and technologies
• Great Python programming skills
• Nice to have:
  • Experienced working with customers in a consulting capacity and/or in Services
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with Databases and/or data processing technologies
• Experience 1-2 years

At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

We are a Remote company and this position can be remote within the US.