Airbyte
Engineering Manager, Platform
San Francisco · Senior
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About the role
- Your work directly shapes both how fast engineers ship and how customers experience Airbyte.
- This role combines people leadership, technical strategy, operational excellence, and platform thinking.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs. Recruit engineers who understand that infrastructure decisions are product decisions.
- 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.
- Your team is engaged, growing, and building careers they're proud of.
Requirements
- 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've navigated the tension between paying down tech debt and shipping product, and you can articulate how you made those calls.
- You have an insatiable desire to ship.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows or agentic software development.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience with data infrastructure, ETL/ELT, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience contributing to open-source engineering organizations.
- Familiarity with Airbyte, connector ecosystems, or developer tooling platforms.
- Platform Engineering is the force multiplier for every engineering team at Airbyte.
- The best platform teams are invisible-they make everyone else dramatically more effective.
- Breakfast and lunch in our San Francisco office
Compensation
- Flexible PTO with a culture that encourages at least 25 days off annually
Benefits
- Flexible PTO with a culture that encourages at least 25 days off annually
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Professional development budget, conference sponsorship, and book reimbursement
- Commuter benefits and monthly internet reimbursement
- A collaborative, in-person culture focused on learning, growth, and impact
- Own the reliability and operational health of Airbyte's production systems.
Company info
- Airbyte is the data and action layer for AI agents.
- We give agents fast, accurate, authenticated access to business data across hundreds of sources, so they can discover the entities that matter, reason over real-time context, and take action in the systems they read from, not just observe them.
- We started as the open-source standard for data movement and proved the economics of data integration at scale: hundreds of connectors, thousands of companies, and, since 2020, have raised $181M from leading investors including Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, and Y Combinator.
- As our CEO Michel Tricot puts it, "the last ten years were all about structured data.
- The future is all about context." We're now building that context infrastructure for production-grade agents on the same open foundation, as agents become the primary consumers of enterprise data.
- Our mission is unchanged:
- make data available and actionable to everyone, everywhere.
- That everyone now includes AI agents.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Professional development budget, conference sponsorship, and book reimbursement
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