Airbyte

Airbyte

Engineering Manager, Platform

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentGitCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDGitHub ActionsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringData EngineeringA/B TestingIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunication

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

  • 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

This listing is sourced directly from Airbyte's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.