Hybrid Solutions Engineer – Data Engineering

at Astronomer

• Job title: Solutions Engineer – Data Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Airflow, Apache, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, ETL, Kubernetes, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hyderabad, India

About the role

• Solutions Engineer working with Apache Airflow and Astronomer’s unified DataOps platform. Engaging with customers to deliver data solutions and optimize workflows across environments.

Responsibilities

• You'll be able to speak to and deliver solutions around Apache Airflow and the Astronomer platform.
• You'll interact with customers and partners to ensure successful Airflow implementation post-sales.
• You'll be a trusted advisor and help architect data pipelines across all types of environments and use cases.
• You'll have the opportunity to engage with the Apache Airflow project, a thriving open-source community with thousands of contributors.
• Maintain and continuously improve your technical expertise.
• Work with customers to educate and guide them regarding Airflow best practices.
• Collaborate with team members to design, prototype, and implement engineering solutions for internal and external use.
• Act as a liaison by collecting feedback and identifying Airflow/Astronomer improvements through client interactions and relaying these recommendations back to the Product team.
• Review and optimize customer data workflows and Airflow system configurations for improved performance.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of data-engineering experience, working with Apache Airflow in production environments
• Experience creating DAGs, writing Python, and building Airflow custom operators and hooks
• Excitement about implementing ETL/ELT pipelines, knowledge of applying Data transformations, optimizing and monitoring data pipelines
• Experience with related market products such as Cloudera, Databricks, Snowflake, DBT, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, ETL Technologies or other analytics solutions
• Empathetic, driven and team-oriented
• Great prioritization skills and ability to execute on customer-facing activities
• A strong verbal and written communicator interacting with assigned customers over a variety of mediums (slack, email, knowledge transfer, and pair programming sessions).
• Highly data-driven and intrigued by the challenge of delivering an awesome Astronomer experience to hundreds of customers
• Experienced with Production implementation of ETL/ELT processes using Modern Data Stack (Bonus points)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Bonus points)
• Experience working on short and long-term Customer engagements (Bonus points)
• Experience with infrastructure tools like Docker and Kubernetes (Bonus points)

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model
• Professional development opportunities