Senior Software Engineer, Airbyte
Platform
$195-225k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
Open-source data integration platform
Open for applications
Open-source data integration platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$195-225k
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make data available and actionable to everyone, everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of engineering experience (backend, platform, or distributed systems) with strong proficiency in JVM/Kotlin
- Hands-on experience building/operating large scale distributed systems
- Familiarity with orchestration frameworks (e.g. Temporal-style workflows)
- Experience running services using Kubernetes using Helm on major cloud providers
- Systems-level thinking with an emphasis on performance, reliability, cost, and scalability
- Comfortable with ambiguity, moving fast, and owning problems end-to-end
- If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all of the requirements!
Desirable
- Experience with open-source platforms, especially in data integration or infrastructure tooling
- Familiarity with Airbyte, CDKs, or connector-based architectures
- Background in control plane / data plane architectures or internal developer platforms
- Experience with AI/agent tooling frameworks (LangChain, Pydantic AI, or similar)
What the job involves
- You'll be a Software Engineer on the Data Replication team - a full-stack product team running over 3 million sync jobs a week across multiple regions and clouds
- Your focus: the Control and Data Plane systems that handle configuration, job lifecycle, and load scaling, plus Destinations, the strategic integrations Airbyte writes to. You'll occasionally go deep into infrastructure when the problem demands it
- We expect engineers here to actively use AI as a force multiplier - agentic tools to automate toil, augment incident response, and build smarter internal tooling. Newer to this?
- We’ll work with you to build fluency fast. We care as much about how you work as what you build. Trust, directness, and craftsmanship matter here
- Improve and scale cloud data replication and job lifecycle systems as Airbyte Cloud grows
- Automate platform operations across OSS, Enterprise, and Cloud: deployment validation, release qualification, environment testing
- Build high-leverage internal tooling that helps the team ship connector and CDK changes faster
- Develop AI-powered tooling for connector generation and incident response
- Improve observability and debugging tools for both Airbyte engineers and customers
- Collaborate across platform and cloud infrastructure on cross-cutting technical decisions
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing and technical feedback
Our take
Historically, data teams have had to build and maintain their own data connectors, often having to work around pre-built connectors, as most “long tail” data connectors are not supported by closed-source ELT technologies.
Airbyte’s open-source data integration platform is setting the new standard of moving and consolidating data from different sources to data warehouses, data lakes, or databases, enabling teams to adapt pre-built connectors to fit their unique needs.
Over the last year, more than 9,000 companies have synced data using Airbyte. The unicorn company has raised significant capital and, since its launch in 2020, has become the fastest-growing open-source data integration platform. It also launched the first open-source Python library for moving data, showing it's at the front of the market.
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Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2021
$150m
SERIES B
May 2021
$26m
SERIES A
Total funding: $181.4m
Company benefits
- Fully Remote Flexible Work Environment
- Heath/Dental/Vision/ Life Insurance
- 401k
- Short/Long Term Disability
- Co-Working Space
- 100% Travel Expenses Covered to Come Visit Headquarters
- Continuous Learning/Training
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michel Tricot
(CEO & Co-founder)Founding Member & former Director of Engineering at rideOS. Previous Director of Engineering - Head of Integrations, Tech Lead, and Senior Software Engineer at LiveRamp, An Acxiom Company. Worked as Software Engineer at both Murex and Rapleaf (Senior), and was an R&D Engineer at FactSet Research Systems.
John Lafleur
(COO & Co-founder)Former COO, CEO, and Board Member at CodinGame. Co-Founder of As-App, StreamNation (former Head of Product), and Anaxi (former COO). Worked as a Technology Transfer Officer at Ecole Polytechnique.
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