Software Engineer, Platform

Who We Are Airbyte is the open-source standard for EL(T). We enable data teams to replicate data from applications, APIs, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations. We believe only an open-source approach can solve the problem of data integration, as it enables us to cover the long tail of integrations while enabling teams to adapt pre-built connectors to their needs.   So far, we've built over 350 connectors and have had 35,000+ companies replicating data with us. We've raised $181M from some of the world's top investors (Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, Y Combinator, etc.) and believe in product-led growth, where we build something awesome and let our product bring the users, rather than an outbound sales engine with cold calls.   Airbyte is remote friendly, with most of the team still based in Silicon Valley. We’re fully transparent as a company. Our company handbook, core values, methodology, strategy and roadmap are open to all.   If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all requirements.

 

Opportunity

The Airbyte Platform is a Cloud and Open-Source K8s application that orchestrates the replication of data via Airbyte Connectors. The Platform owns the correct configuration and runtime of replication including observability. A major feature of the platform is that it is run by open-source users, our Cloud product, and paid self-managed users. In order to support all these runtimes, we are looking for a Java engineer who also has deep expertise in K8s and Helm. You will lead technical initiatives that deliver key user-facing features that touch both our core application and K8s infrastructure.

While we give little importance to job titles, we believe every Airbyter should know their internal level and understand what’s expected of them in their role, at their level. This opportunity is for an L5+ Engineer. L5s contribute their deep expertise and experience to large-scale and complex problems. They drive impact by providing thought leadership and context to the organization, driving alignment across teams to achieve success with company objectives. L5s are often the senior-most member of their team and set a high bar for others to strive towards.

What You'll Do

• Lead cross-team technical initiatives
• Write applications and infrastructure code
• Design and lead system-spanning technical projects
• Advocate for new features and product decisions based learnings from users
• Own the success of our Cloud and OSS products
• Contribute to and help shape the Platform team’s roadmap
• Engage with our open source community via events, Slack, or pull requests to ensure we cultivate and serve a thriving community
• Mentor engineers

What You'll Need

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Proficiency writing production-quality code in Java or Kotlin
• Highly proficient with Kubernetes and Helm
• Any non-zero experience either building or using ETL tools
• Any non-zero level of experience working on a cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).
• Desire to work directly with users
• Desire to guide the product to better solve for user needs
• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for continuous learning and improvement (both at a personal and team level)
• Belief in our values

 

Location

• San Francisco. Hybrid, twice per week. 

 

We provide

• Flexible work environment - we don’t look at when you log in, log out or how much time you work. We look at your output and we trust you; it’s the only way remote can actually work. 
• Unlimited Paid Time Off - we need you at your best at all times. Our expected minimum time off of 25 PTO days per year lets you schedule your work around your life.
• Co-working space - most of our team enjoys the WFH life but if you prefer to work from a co-working space, we will cover the full monthly cost.
• Parental leave (for both parents) - we offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents so you h