Astronomer

Astronomer is Apache Airflow's enterprise home. While Airflow was open-sourced by Airbnb back in 2016, Astronomer stepped in to build the managed platform companies actually run in production—fully-hosted orchestration, private cloud deployments for security-conscious enterprises, and now Otto, an AI agent specifically built for Airflow workflows. This isn't some generic AI wrapper. Otto reasons about DAGs failures, plans upgrades against both public Airflow knowledge and your private deployment history, and writes actual code. It knows operators, hooks, compatibility matrices, and your team's conventions. That's the difference between generic copilots and something actually useful.

Their annual "State of Airflow" report surveyed over 5,800 data practitioners—those are real numbers from real teams running pipelines at scale. They've got the education piece locked down too: Academy, certifications, webinars, the whole thing. If you're building data pipelines in 2026 and not using Airflow, you're behind. If you ARE using Airflow and managing it yourself on EC2 instances at 3AM, you're suffering unnecessarily. Astronomer handles the infrastructure so your data team handles the data.

Based in Denver, Colorado. Hiring across engineering and customer success.