Astronomer
Astronomer sells a data orchestration platform built on Apache Airflow, used by over 900 enterprises to manage analytics and AI workflows. The company has raised $378M, including a Series D in May 2025.
About
Astronomer provides a commercial version of Apache Airflow, an open-source tool for scheduling and monitoring data pipelines. Enterprises use it to coordinate data flows between analytics, AI models, and applications.
The company reached 201-500 employees and serves 900+ enterprise customers. Its $378M funding includes backing from Bain Capital Ventures and Bosch Ventures, with engineering making up its largest department at 124 staff.
Founders and leadership
Engineering dominates with 124 staff, nearly half the company. Leadership includes veterans from data infrastructure firms, though specific names aren't provided in the data.
The Astronomer org chart
Andy Byron (Chief Executive Officer) leads 54 mapped leaders with 7 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Talent flow
Astronomer recruits heavily from MongoDB (13 hires) and Datadog (12), with alumni often moving to Databricks (14 departures). Georgia Tech and NYU are top feeder schools.
Most common previous employers of Astronomer staff: MongoDB (13), Datadog (12), Cybereason (11), Oracle (10), Dell EMC (9), VMware (8). Former Astronomer employees most often moved to Databricks (14), Fable Security (6), Grafana Labs (6), Google (6), Harness (5), Datadog (5).
Alumni worth knowing
The Astronomer mafia
12 alumni founded companies, including Hume AI (55 staff) and MetaRouter (52 staff), showing strong entrepreneurial spillover from the data infrastructure space.
12Andrew Ettinger, was Chief Revenue Officer until 2023Greg Brunk, was Product Lead - Clickstream until 2018Jason Hubbard, was Head of Growth Marketing until 2022Willy Lulciuc, was Senior Software Engineer until 2024Prachi Mishra, was Senior Software Engineer until 2023
Ben Gregory, was Senior Product Manager until 2019
Justin Cook, was Talent Advisor until 2025
Shalin Patel, was Software Engineer until 2024
Samantha O'Leary, was Principal Software Engineer until 2023
Michael Gregory, was Staff Ecosystem Engineer for Machine Learning until 2024
Michael Cooper, was VP of Partner until 2023Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 51% direct, 30% search, 6% social, 1% paid.
Where the team actually sits
Astronomer people are concentrated in New York, United States (31), California, United States (26), New York City Metropolitan Area (16), England, United Kingdom (14).
Search footprint
Astronomer attracts about 7,033 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $15K a month if bought through ads. It gained 1,039 ranking keywords and lost 791 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 4.20 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.80 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.60 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.70 / 5
Frequently asked
Astronomer has raised $378M in total, most recently a Series D round in May 2025.
Astronomer was founded in 2018 by Viraj Parekh, Tim Brunk, Pete DeJoy, Greg N..
Andy Byron (Chief Executive Officer) sits at the top of Astronomer's reporting structure, with 7 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Astronomer staff are MongoDB (13 people), Datadog (12 people), Cybereason (11 people).
Former Astronomer employees most often move to Databricks (14), Fable Security (6), Grafana Labs (6).
At least 12 companies have a founder who previously worked at Astronomer, including Hume AI, MetaRouter, Tembo.
Astronomer attracts about 7,033 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $15K a month in equivalent ad spend.
Astronomer staff are concentrated in New York, United States (31), California, United States (26), New York City Metropolitan Area (16).
Computed from 312 current and 469 former Astronomer profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
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