Apache Airflow
The most widely used open-source scheduler for data pipelines, which are defined in Python as graphs of dependent tasks.
Hiring data as of November 4, 2026 · refreshed daily
- companies naming it
- 10 of 47companies naming it
- open roles naming it
- 16open roles naming it
- of those based in NYC
- 13of those based in NYC
- median posted base (n=11)
- $222kmedian posted base (n=11)
What Apache Airflow means
Airflow schedules and monitors batch workflows. A pipeline is written in Python as a directed graph of tasks; Airflow runs them in order, retries failures, and records history. It is the incumbent in data orchestration.
Apache Airflow in New York job posts
10 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name Apache Airflow in at least one open role today, across 16 postings. 13 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.
This is engineering vocabulary: 88% of the postings that name it are Engineering roles.
How to read it
Names a data engineering role, or an ML role that owns its own training and feature pipelines. Sometimes written as “Airflow or Dagster”; the skill being asked for is orchestration, and either demonstrates it.
What these roles pay
Midpoints of 11 distinct salary ranges posted on New York roles that name Apache Airflow. Base salary only; on-target earnings are excluded, and a range repeated across one company’s postings counts once. For comparison, the median across all New York engineering postings is $216k. A term’s pay reflects the roles that name it as much as the skill itself — see the role mix below before reading a premium into it. Full bands by function and seniority are in the NYC salary calculator.
Companies naming Apache Airflow, daily
Count of companies with at least one open role naming the term. We read between 46 and 48 companies a day over this period, so a move of one or two is noise.
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| Date | companies |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-17 | 13 |
| 2026-08-18 | 12 |
| 2026-08-19 | 12 |
| 2026-08-20 | 12 |
| 2026-08-21 | 12 |
| 2026-08-22 | 12 |
| 2026-08-23 | 12 |
| 2026-08-24 | 12 |
| 2026-08-25 | 12 |
| 2026-08-26 | 12 |
| 2026-08-27 | 12 |
| 2026-08-28 | 11 |
| 2026-08-29 | 11 |
| 2026-08-30 | 11 |
| 2026-08-31 | 11 |
| 2026-09-01 | 11 |
| 2026-09-02 | 11 |
| 2026-09-03 | 11 |
| 2026-09-04 | 11 |
| 2026-09-05 | 11 |
| 2026-09-06 | 11 |
| 2026-09-07 | 11 |
| 2026-09-08 | 11 |
| 2026-09-09 | 11 |
| 2026-09-10 | 10 |
| 2026-09-11 | 10 |
| 2026-09-12 | 10 |
| 2026-09-13 | 10 |
| 2026-09-14 | 10 |
| 2026-09-15 | 10 |
| 2026-09-16 | 10 |
| 2026-09-17 | 10 |
| 2026-09-18 | 9 |
| 2026-09-19 | 9 |
| 2026-09-20 | 9 |
| 2026-09-21 | 9 |
| 2026-09-22 | 9 |
| 2026-09-23 | 9 |
| 2026-09-24 | 9 |
| 2026-09-25 | 7 |
| 2026-09-26 | 7 |
| 2026-09-27 | 7 |
| 2026-09-28 | 7 |
| 2026-09-29 | 7 |
| 2026-09-30 | 7 |
| 2026-10-01 | 7 |
| 2026-10-02 | 7 |
| 2026-10-03 | 7 |
| 2026-10-04 | 7 |
| 2026-10-05 | 7 |
| 2026-10-06 | 7 |
| 2026-10-07 | 7 |
| 2026-10-08 | 7 |
| 2026-10-09 | 7 |
| 2026-10-10 | 7 |
| 2026-10-11 | 7 |
| 2026-10-12 | 7 |
| 2026-10-13 | 7 |
| 2026-10-14 | 7 |
| 2026-10-15 | 7 |
| 2026-10-16 | 7 |
| 2026-10-17 | 8 |
| 2026-10-18 | 8 |
| 2026-10-19 | 8 |
| 2026-10-20 | 7 |
| 2026-10-21 | 8 |
| 2026-10-22 | 9 |
| 2026-10-23 | 10 |
| 2026-10-24 | 10 |
| 2026-10-25 | 10 |
| 2026-10-26 | 10 |
| 2026-10-27 | 10 |
| 2026-10-28 | 10 |
| 2026-10-29 | 10 |
| 2026-10-30 | 10 |
| 2026-10-31 | 10 |
| 2026-11-01 | 10 |
| 2026-11-02 | 10 |
| 2026-11-03 | 10 |
| 2026-11-04 | 10 |
Named alongside Apache Airflow
Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 10 companies pair the two.
- Spark 2
- Synthetic data 2
- Dagster 2
- Databricks 2
- Elasticsearch 3
- Snowflake 3
- PyTorch 2
- dbt 3
- Data pipelines 5
- Java 3
Open roles naming Apache Airflow
A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.
- Applied Scientist Intern ↗Ramp · New York, NY (HQ)
- Data Engineer ↗K Health · New York, NY
- Data Engineer II- Life Sciences ↗H1 · New York
- Platform Engineer, Document Intelligence ↗Hebbia · NYC
- Senior Data Engineer ↗EliseAI · New York City
- Senior Data Engineer ↗Headway · New York City
- Senior Software Engineer, Identity ↗Attentive · New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform ↗Clay · New York
How this is counted
Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.
The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.
Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.
Apache Airflow — common questions
What does Apache Airflow mean in an AI job posting?
The most widely used open-source scheduler for data pipelines, which are defined in Python as graphs of dependent tasks. Names a data engineering role, or an ML role that owns its own training and feature pipelines. Sometimes written as “Airflow or Dagster”; the skill being asked for is orchestration, and either demonstrates it.
How many New York AI companies are hiring for Apache Airflow?
As of November 4, 2026, 10 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name Apache Airflow in the description of at least one open role, across 16 postings (13 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.
What do roles that ask for Apache Airflow pay in New York?
Across 11 distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming Apache Airflow, the median midpoint is $222k base, with the middle half between $203k and $235k. The same figure for all New York engineering postings is $216k. These are employer-posted ranges required by New York’s pay transparency law, base salary only.
Which skills are asked for alongside Apache Airflow?
In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with Apache Airflow are Spark, Synthetic data, Dagster, Databricks, Elasticsearch. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.
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