Airbyte

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Fullstack - Hiring Sprint

Airbyte$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building production fullstack applications
  • Deep expertise with React and TypeScript
  • Strong backend engineering experience building APIs and distributed systems
  • Experience shipping user-facing SaaS products alongside internal tools
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment workflows
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • A bias toward ownership, automation, and shipping

Responsibilities

  • Design and build applications for Airbyte's engineering platform
  • Develop internal dashboards for infrastructure health and platform performance
  • Create self-service tools for engineers to manage services
  • Build modern React and TypeScript applications with scalable backend services
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software
  • Enhance the usability and reliability of Airbyte's systems
  • Establish engineering standards and reusable platform components

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
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Professional development budget and conference sponsorship
  • Commuter benefits and monthly internet reimbursement
  • Breakfast and lunch in the office
  • Collaborative, in-person culture focused on learning and growth
Full Job Description
Engineering Hiring Sprint:

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.

Interview process:
  1. Apply
  2. Technical Take-Home (Java or Python)
  3. Hiring Manager Interview
  4. In-Person Onsite (the week of July 20)
  5. Hiring decision by the end of the week


We're hiring across multiple engineering teams, including:
  • Platform Engineers
  • 🗄 Database Engineers
  • ☁ Site Reliability Engineers
  • 🔌 Extensibility API Engineers
  • AI Agents Engineers
  • Engineering Managers


If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, moving quickly, embracing AI, and taking ownership of your work, we'd love to meet you.

The Role:

Every great product is built on a great platform. At Airbyte, the Platform team builds the systems that power every product we ship, including Airbyte Cloud, Airbyte Flex, and Airbyte Agents.

We create the infrastructure, internal tooling, developer platforms, and user-facing product surfaces that allow engineers to build quickly, deploy safely, and operate reliably at scale. Our work spans cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, engineering productivity, and the product experiences that our customers and engineers rely on every day.

As a Senior Fullstack Engineer on Platform, you'll work across the full stack to build both the internal tools that accelerate engineering and the user-facing features that customers interact with directly. You'll move fluidly between building an internal deployment dashboard and shipping a product feature in Airbyte Cloud.

This role is ideal for engineers who care about craft across the entire stack, whether the user is an internal engineer or an external customer, and who believe great platform work makes everything around it better.

What You'll Do:

Build Internal Platform Products
  • Design and build applications that power Airbyte's engineering platform and product surfaces.
  • Develop internal dashboards for deployments, infrastructure health, connector operations, and platform performance.
  • Build and improve user-facing features in Airbyte Cloud and Flex, working closely with product and design.
  • Create self-service tools that enable engineers to provision infrastructure, manage services, and troubleshoot production systems.


Build Across the Stack
  • Build modern React and TypeScript applications backed by scalable backend services.
  • Design APIs and services that support both internal engineering workflows and customer-facing product features.
  • Collaborate with Platform Engineers, SREs, Product Engineering, Product Managers, and Designers to ship high-quality software.
  • Improve the usability and reliability of the systems that power Airbyte's products, for both internal and external users.


Improve Developer Experience
  • Build tooling that automates repetitive engineering work and reduces friction across the org.
  • Improve release workflows, deployment visibility, and operational dashboards.
  • Contribute to the quality of user-facing product surfaces: performance, accessibility, and reliability.
  • Help establish engineering standards and reusable platform components.


Drive Operational Excellence
  • Build interfaces that improve observability, incident response, and production operations.
  • Create tools that help engineers and customers understand system health, deployment status, and service reliability.
  • Improve visibility into platform performance through dashboards, metrics, and reporting.
  • Continuously identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through automation.


Technical Leadership
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, architecture discussions, and technical leadership.
  • Raise the quality bar for frontend architecture, testing, accessibility, and maintainability.
  • Contribute to platform-wide engineering standards and best practices.
  • Help shape the future of Airbyte's platform and product engineering.


What You'll Need:
  • 5+ years of experience building production fullstack applications.
  • Deep expertise with React and TypeScript.
  • Strong backend engineering experience building APIs and distributed systems.
  • Experience shipping user-facing SaaS products alongside internal tools, developer platforms, or operational dashboards.
  • Experience working with product managers and designers to ship customer-facing features.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment workflows.
  • Strong product instincts and customer empathy, whether your user is an engineer or an external customer.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • A bias toward ownership, automation, and shipping.


Nice To Have:
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, or developer productivity tooling.
  • Familiarity with observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus.
  • Experience with Java or Kotlin.
  • Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience building internal engineering tools or developer platforms.
  • Familiarity with data infrastructure or large-scale SaaS platforms.


What Success Looks Like:

Success means the software you build makes both engineers and customers more effective.

Engineers deploy with confidence.

Infrastructure is easier to understand.

Production issues are easier to diagnose.

Operational workflows become self-service.

Development becomes faster, safer, and more reliable.

You'll build software that spans the full spectrum, from internal platforms that multiply engineering velocity to product features that customers use every day.

Why This Role Matters:

Platform Engineering is the foundation beneath Airbyte Cloud, Airbyte Flex, and Airbyte Agents. Our mission is to build the infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience that allows every engineering team to deliver reliable software at scale.

When Platform succeeds, engineers move faster and customers get a better product. You'll help build the systems that let Airbyte focus on what matters most: building the future of data movement and AI.

Location:
  • Onsite 4 days/week in San Francisco, CA


Why You'll Love Working at Airbyte:

At Airbyte, we believe great work happens when people feel supported, trusted, and empowered to grow. Our market-leading Total Rewards package is designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. Our benefits and perks include:
  • 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
  • Breakfast and lunch in our San Francisco office
  • A collaborative, in-person culture focused on learning, growth, and impact


If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don't meet all of the requirements!

We are not accepting agency submissions or recruiting firm support for this role. Unsolicited resumes will not be considered.

About Airbyte

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that helps organizations replicate data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. The company was founded in 2020 by Michel Tricot and John Lafleur and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Airbyte's platform is designed to be easy to use, scalable, and extensible, and it offers a range of features including data transformations, scheduling, monitoring, and more. The company has raised $5.2 million in seed funding to date, and its investors include Accel, Y Combinator, and 8VC.
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Size
20 employees
Industry
Founded
2020
NASDAQ

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