Astronomer
astronomer.io
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Data Integration & ETL Tools
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$93M
1 round on record
Latest round
$93M
Venture round · May 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
19
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
11
500 Global, M25
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
33/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Oct 2026
Formerly Datakin Acquisition (datakin.com)
Sep 17
First role in India Senior Software Engineer (Python) - India
Jul 30
First role in Ireland Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
May 1, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $93M · Venturebeat
Sep 22, 2023
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Open-source implementation of A16Z’s LLM architecture
2015
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2025 | $93M | — | Venturebeat |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
500 Global 
M25 
Frontline 
Grand Ventures 
Insight Partners 
K5 Global 
Lead Edge Capital 
Salesforce Ventures 
Sierra Ventures 
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How Astronomer hires
Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
28 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
60%
Reposted roles
0%
Astronomer scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 60% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 28 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Astronomer is the commercial company behind Apache Airflow and its managed Astro platform for building, running and scaling data pipelines and orchestration. It is trusted by more than 800 enterprises and hires platform engineers, sales engineers, sales development and marketing staff. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Astronomer over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
70
Postings analysed
45
Stack modernity
74/100AI adopter
Languages
Python60%
Go38%
SQL31%
TypeScript9%
Frameworks & libraries
Playwright11%
Pytest7%
Dagster4%
Astro2%
Databases
Snowflake16%
Google BigQuery11%
Amazon Redshift11%
PostgreSQL7%
Cloud & platforms
Airflow100%
Kubernetes58%
AWS42%
Azure42%
AI & ML
Claude2%
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Full Astronomer tech stack
70 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$115k – $390k
Open positions
13
13
Jobs
Junior
7.7%
Middle
7.7%
Senior
53.8%
Staff
23.1%
Principal
7.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 1 | $115k | $115k |
| Middle | 1 | $250k | $250k |
| Senior | 7 | $250k | $196k – $300k |
| Staff | 3 | $377k | $245k – $377k |
| Principal | 1 | $390k | $390k |
Highest paying role
Principal Software Engineer
$390k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Astronomer
By role, level and city, against the market · 13 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
83/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
19
6 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 46% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
53% ▼
Sales
26% ▲
Product
6% ▼
Solutions
6% ▲
AI/ML
3% ▼
Administrative
3% ▲
Actively hiring for Backend (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Dublin
Oct 2026
New location: Germany
Oct 2026
New location: Hyderabad
Sep 2026
Added Jira to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Chicago
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Claude Code to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
New location: San Jose
Sep 2026
Added Fivetran to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Austin
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
8 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 200-500 est. staff $289k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
54 W. 21st St., Suite 1100, New York, NY, 10010, US
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
5 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 40% engineering 50-200 est. staff $222k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Sales, Solutions
San Francisco
United States
Sales office
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $300k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Earlier presence
Boston, United States
Columbia, United States
Austin, United States
Jobs
$118k – $196k per year • Equity • Remote (Ireland) • Full-Time • Dublin
Python
Go
Airflow
DevOps
Splunk
GCP
Istio
CircleCI
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Karpenter
Bazel
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitHub
QA
Playwright
Apply
$210k – $250k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • New York
Go
SQL
PostgreSQL
Google Cloud Spanner
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude
Airflow
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $116k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • London
Python
Snowflake
Databricks
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Airflow
dbt
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
$200k – $250k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • New York
Python
Snowflake
Databricks
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Airflow
dbt
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
$277k – $390k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • New York
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Airflow
Frontend
Astro
DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
GCP
OpenShift
Helm
OpenTelemetry
Consul
etcd
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Apply
$275k – $377k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • New York
Python
Go
SQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Airflow
DevOps
Datadog
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Honeycomb
Apply
$179k – $245k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
Airflow
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $106k – $226k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Remote (Ireland) • Full-Time • Dublin
Airflow
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$275k – $377k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • New York
Airflow
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$142k – $199k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • London
Python
Go
Airflow
DevOps
Splunk
GCP
Istio
CircleCI
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Karpenter
Bazel
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitHub
QA
Playwright
Apply
$210k – $250k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • New York
Python
Go
Airflow
DevOps
Splunk
GCP
Istio
CircleCI
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Karpenter
Bazel
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitHub
QA
Playwright
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$93M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | $93M | Details |