Senior Solutions Architect (Airflow)

TL;DR

Senior Solutions Architect (Airflow): Designing and deploying data orchestration platforms on Astro with an accent on scalability, security, and operational excellence. Focus on guiding enterprise customers through complex migrations, tuning Airflow performance, and building reusable reference architectures.

Location: Remote (Must be based in the USA)

Salary: $190,000 - $250,000

Company

hirify.global is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow.

What you will do

• Lead architecture reviews, workshops, and technical design sessions with engineering leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Design end-to-end platform architectures integrating Airflow with cloud infrastructure, compute frameworks, and data platforms.
• Review delivery work to ensure high standards for scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues and guide customers through deployments and migrations.
• Build reusable tools, frameworks, and reference architectures to improve delivery quality across the organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or solution architecture.
• Expertise in Apache Airflow, including authoring DAGs, tuning performance, and troubleshooting production failures.
• Proven track record of guiding customers through platform deployments, migrations, or technical transformations.
• Strong background in designing cloud-native data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Programming proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery, or Redshift.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first customer engagement model.
• Opportunity to work on high-scale architecture problems with world-leading organizations.
• Comprehensive benefits package including an equity component.
• Inclusive environment prioritizing diversity and equal opportunity.