Engineering Manager, Airbyte

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years managing engineering teams
• Experience leading Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, or Developer Productivity organizations
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems
• Experience operating production systems at scale
• You think about platform work in terms of customer impact, not just engineering elegance
• You've navigated the tension between paying down tech debt and shipping product, and you can articulate how you made those calls
• Excellent communication skills. You can translate platform strategy into language that product, design, and business leaders understand
• You have an insatiable desire to ship
• If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, moving quickly, embracing AI, and taking ownership of your work, we'd love to meet you
• If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all of the requirements!

Desirable

• We're growing our engineering team and are accelerating hiring through a focused Engineering Hiring Sprint
• Rather than stretching interviews over several weeks, we're bringing exceptional candidates through an expedited process and making hiring decisions quickly
• Airbyte is looking for an Engineering Manager, Platform to lead the team responsible for the infrastructure, tooling, and engineering systems that power Airbyte Cloud, Airbyte Flex, and Airbyte Agents
• As an Engineering Manager on the Platform team, you'll lead the engineers responsible for cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and the internal tooling that powers engineering velocity across the company
• Your work directly shapes both how fast engineers ship and how customers experience Airbyte
• This isn't a keep-the-lights-on role. You'll make real tradeoffs between engineering velocity, customer-facing reliability, and long-term architecture every week, and you'll help define how AI transforms the way we build and operate software
• This role combines people leadership, technical strategy, operational excellence, and platform thinking
• You'll help define how engineering works at Airbyte - not just what we build
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs. Recruit engineers who understand that infrastructure decisions are product decisions
• Own the reliability and operational health of Airbyte's production systems
• Define the roadmap for Airbyte's platform: infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, internal tooling, and the product surfaces built on top of them
• Invest in and drive adoption of AI-powered workflows for debugging, release validation, infrastructure management, and developer productivity, moving past experimentation into real operational leverage
• Lead incident response, run blameless postmortems, and ensure systemic fixes follow every outage. Continuously reduce operational toil through automation
• Build leverage: a week-long task this year should take ten minutes next year
• Success Metrics:
• Engineers deploy with confidence and ship faster quarter over quarter
• Platform reliability improves as measured by customer-facing SLAs, not just internal dashboards
• Operational toil decreases through automation, not heroics
• Incidents are detected faster, resolved faster, and the same failure doesn't happen twice
• Your team is engaged, growing, and building careers they're proud of
• We're hiring across multiple engineering teams, including:
• Platform Engineers
• Database Engineers
• Site Reliability Engineers
• Extensibility API Engineers
• AI Agents Engineers
• Engineering Managers

• Apply
• Technical Take-Home (Java or Python)
• Hiring Manager Interview
• In-Person Onsite (the week of July 20)
• Hiring decision by the end of the week (July 24)