Airflow Platform Engineer

Airflow Platform Engineer1

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.