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Airbyte
Full time
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USA
11/12/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Turn product hypotheses into focused technical experiments and prototypes.
Work with customers, Product, Design, and customer-facing teams to understand problems and incorporate feedback.
Evaluate technical approaches and influence product direction.
Design and implement backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for AI, data, and developer products.
Build reliable, observable systems with failure handling, debugging, and operational safeguards.
Move promising prototypes into production and improve them through usage, incidents, and customer feedback.
Own architecture and execution across technical design, implementation, rollout, and iteration.
Lead cross-team technical decisions, align interfaces and dependencies, and influence broader architecture.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
Strong backend engineering fundamentals and distributed-systems design experience.
Experience with APIs, asynchronous workflows, concurrency, queues, state, retries, or distributed execution.
Hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered products using LLMs, agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, or similar technologies.
Experience with orchestration systems, workflow engines, developer platforms, or infrastructure products.
Strong system design skills focused on reliability, scale, observability, and failure modes.
Ability to lead technical direction across teams and influence architectural and engineering decisions.
Ability to move quickly from prototype to production while maintaining engineering quality.
Strong product instincts and comfort working in ambiguous 0-to-1 environments.
Exceptional written communication, ownership, and focus on shipping.
Preferred experience operating AI agents in production, including debugging, observability, and evaluation.
Preferred experience with agent infrastructure, agent platforms, evaluation systems, retrieval systems, vector search, search infrastructure, semantic models, developer tools, platform infrastructure, or third-party SaaS integrations.
Preferred experience with Kafka, Iceberg, Postgres, Spark, or modern data warehouses.

Benefits

Flexible PTO with a culture encouraging at least 25 days off annually.
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
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.
Breakfast and lunch in the San Francisco office.
San Francisco, California location with an onsite schedule of four days per week.
Collaborative in-person culture focused on learning, growth, and impact.

Salary: $250k - $280k/yr

Airbyte

Airbyte builds an open-source data integration platform that replicates data from hundreds of sources into warehouses, lakes, and operational systems. It offers both self-hosted OSS and a managed cloud service with enterprise features, serving data teams and companies building production AI agent...

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