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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 14, 2026, refreshed daily. All terms in the AI skills glossary

companies naming it
10 of 47companies naming it
open roles naming it
13open roles naming it
of those based in NYC
11of those based in NYC
median posted base (n=9)
$223kmedian posted base (n=9)

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 13 postings. 11 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.

This is engineering vocabulary: 92% 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

$205k25th percentile
$223kMedian
$235k75th percentile

Midpoints of 9 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 $215k. 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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Who names it

Open roles naming Apache Airflow, by company.

  • Attentive2
  • Normal Computing2
  • Ramp2
  • Clay1
  • EliseAI1
  • H11
  • Headway1
  • Hebbia1
  • K Health1
  • Reality Defender1

Which roles

The same postings, by function and by seniority.

  • Engineering12
  • Research1
  • Mid5
  • Senior4
  • Staff/Principal3
  • Entry1

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.

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.

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 14, 2026, 10 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name Apache Airflow in the description of at least one open role, across 13 postings (11 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 9 distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming Apache Airflow, the median midpoint is $223k base, with the middle half between $205k and $235k. The same figure for all New York engineering postings is $215k. 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, Snowflake, PyTorch. 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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