# Field Engineer, SWAT

**Company:** [Astronomer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/astronomer)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Git, Apache Airflow, AWS, GCP, Azure, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Vault
**Posted:** 2026-06-19

> Field Engineer delivering technical solutions and guiding enterprise customers through complex Apache Airflow and Astronomer platform implementations.

## Job Description

## What you get to do
- Implement Astronomer’s software and services in the core of some of the world’s largest businesses and organizations
- Guide our largest and most complex customers in their Apache Airflow journeys
- Act as the core interface between the Customer, Sales, and Product to ensure that the broader solution around the platform is solving pain points and bringing value to customers

## What you bring to the role
- Strong Kubernetes experience (GKE/EKS/AKS or OpenShift preferred)
- Expertise in at least one programming language
- Good understanding of network complexities and architectures
- Versatile Terminal and CLI user; hands-on role, frequently without access to a GUI
- Experience setting up and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Experience with complex SaaS infrastructure operating at scale
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider API/tooling
- Ability to read code
- Work effectively with git
- Cloud-native data architecture experience
- Strong customer facing skills
- Strong oral and written communications skills - able to explain complex technical issues to non-technical folks succinctly

## Bonus points if you have
- Prior experience using or administering Apache Airflow, Autosys, UC4, Temporal, Dagster, or Prefect
- Proficiency in Python/Go
- Enterprise data experience with or in regulated environments
- Experience with scripting/automation specifically infra (Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- 5+ years experience in a data engineering role or equivalent
- 3+ years in a customer-facing role
- Experience with ElasticSearch/Prometheus/Vault

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