Airbyte

Senior Solutions Architect

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

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., solutions architect, professional services)
  • 2+ years in a startup environment, focusing on modern data infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with AI frameworks
  • Familiarity with AI agent frameworks and prompt engineering
  • Proven track record enhancing business productivity through technical support
  • Exceptional customer focus ensuring seamless onboarding and ongoing success
  • Strong interpersonal and presentation skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead impactful technical projects to deploy Airbyte solutions according to client needs
  • Guide customers through their journey with hands-on technical support
  • Design AI-powered data pipeline architectures for optimizing data workflows
  • Troubleshoot complex data movement issues involving SQL and database technologies
  • Advise on integrating LLM-based tooling into existing infrastructures
  • Collaborate with clients to tailor solutions based on their technical needs
  • Partner with sales and product teams to drive growth opportunities and influence product roadmap

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO encouraging 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 with conference sponsorship and book reimbursement
  • Commuter benefits and monthly internet reimbursement
  • Breakfast and lunch provided in the office
  • Collaborative in-person culture centered on learning and growth
Full Job Description
The Role:

As an Airbyte Senior Solutions Architect, you will have a unique opportunity to elevate your career and make an immediate impact in the rapidly growing data infrastructure sector. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in helping customers implement and adopt our products while serving as their advocate within the company. This includes collaborating with Go-to-Market (GTM), Product, and Engineering teams to refine and enhance the onboarding, implementation, and growth experiences for enterprise customers. You will also work closely with cross-functional teams to support both sales and post-sales efforts, driving improved qualification, faster deal cycles, and higher levels of customer satisfaction and retention. Joining us at this stage means youll be on the ground floor of a rapidly expanding Series B startup, with significant opportunities for professional growth and advancement.

What Youll Do:

Technical Implementation
  • Lead and execute impactful customer technical projects, including the implementation and deployment of Airbyte solutions, while ensuring alignment with client requirements and industry best practices.
  • Guide customers throughout their customer journey by leveraging your technical expertise and stepping in with hands-on support when needed.
  • Design and implement AI-powered data pipeline architectures using frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Haystack to enable intelligent data workflows for enterprise customers.
  • Deep understanding of database technologies, including SQL, CDC (Change Data Capture), database replication, and data synchronization concepts, with the ability to troubleshoot complex data movement issues.
  • Strong knowledge of REST APIs, including HTTP methods, authentication (OAuth, API keys, JWT), webhooks, and JSON, with the ability to troubleshoot complex integration issues.
  • Advise customers on integrating LLM-based tooling into their existing data infrastructure alongside Airbyte connectors.


Client Engagement
  • Work directly with clients technical teams to understand their needs and tailor solutions accordingly.
  • Managing technical success by collaborating with Airbytes technical support, Product, and Engineering teams to address issues and deliver new features.
  • Help clients evaluate and adopt AI agent frameworks to build autonomous data agents that leverage Airbyte as a data source.


Cross-Department Collaboration
  • Collaborate with Sales to identify and drive potential growth opportunities with customers.
  • Act as the internal source of truth for customer technical requirements, expectations, and needed functionalities.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering teams to surface customer needs, influencing the roadmap.


Advocacy and Evangelism
  • Demonstrate the use and best practices of Airbytes offering to clients and at industry events.
  • Serve as a brand ambassador promoting the organizations mission and fostering relationships with key stakeholders.
  • Evangelize best practices for building AI-ready data stacks
  • Create and deliver technical content (blog posts, demos, conference talks) showcasing how Airbyte enables modern AI architectures.


What Youll Need:
  • 6+ years of experience in a customer facing technical role, such as resident solutions architect, professional services engineer, or consulting role.
  • 2+ years of experience in a startup environment, ideally in modern data infrastructure, including cloud applications, databases, ELT tools, data warehouses or related fields (startup implementation experience is a bonus).
  • Hands-on experience with one or more AI frameworks
  • Exposure to AI agent frameworks and prompt engineering best practices is a strong plus.
  • Proven track record of supporting products that directly impact business productivity.
  • Exceptional customer orientation with a focus on delivering seamless onboarding and ongoing technical success.
  • Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.


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


Why Youll 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 dont 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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20 employees
Industry
Founded
2020
NASDAQ

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