Airflow Platform Engineer

Experience:

4 - 6 years

Key Responsibilities:

DAG Development & Developer Enablement

• Design, develop, and optimize Airflow DAGs for enterprise use cases
• Demonstrate strong experience with operators such as PythonOperator, SQL operators, API/HTTP operators, KubernetesPodOperator etc.
• Apply advanced DAG patterns including dynamic DAGs, branching, sensors, retries, and error handling
• Troubleshoot DAG failures, performance issues, and integration challenges
• Enable orchestration of modern data workflows including DBT pipelines
• Provide reusable templates, best practices, and onboarding support to drive self-service adoption

Platform Operations & Kubernetes Support

• Support Airflow platform deployed on AKS, covering scheduler, webserver/API, workers, and metadata services
• Troubleshoot issues related to task execution, scheduling delays, and resource bottlenecks
• Diagnose Kubernetes-level issues involving pods, networking, storage, and RBAC
• Work with Azure services such as Key Vault, Storage, and networking
• Support CI/CD pipelines for DAG and container-based deployments
• Improve platform stability, monitoring, and alerting

Required Skills:

• Strong experience with Apache Airflow (3.x or later) in production environments
• Proven experience in DAG development using operators and orchestration patterns
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes (AKS preferred) to support Airflow runtime
• Expert-level Python knowledge for building, debugging, and maintaining production-grade workflows and supporting libraries
• Expertise in writing unit, integration, and DAG validation tests for Airflow workflows, including mocking operators, validating dependencies, and ensuring reliability in CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with DBT and modern data pipelines
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, Docker)
• Familiarity with Azure or other cloud platforms

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Astronomer / Astro Private Cloud
• Exposure to data platforms such as Snowflake, and APIs
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk or Prometheus
• Knowledge of secrets management using Azure Key Vault

Summary:

This role is critical to ensuring reliable platform operations and scalable adoption of the Airflow-based orchestration platform. The ideal candidate combines strong Airflow expertise, Kubernetes knowledge, and hands-on development experience to support both platform stability and developer productivity.