Role overview

Engineering Manager, Platform- Hiring Sprint

Requirements and responsibilities

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Engineering Hiring Sprint:

  • ⚙️ Platform Engineers
  • 🗄️ Database Engineers
  • ☁️ Site Reliability Engineers
  • 🔌 Extensibility API Engineers
  • 🤖 AI Agents Engineers
  • 👤 Engineering Managers

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs. Recruit engineers who understand that infrastructure decisions are product decisions.
  • Own the reliability and operational health of Airbyte's production systems.
  • Define the roadmap for Airbyte's platform: infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, internal tooling, and the product surfaces built on top of them.
  • 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.

Success Metrics:

  • Engineers deploy with confidence and ship faster quarter over quarter.
  • Platform reliability improves as measured by customer-facing SLAs, not just internal dashboards.
  • Operational toil decreases through automation, not heroics.
  • Incidents are detected faster, resolved faster, and the same failure doesn't happen twice.
  • Your team is engaged, growing, and building careers they're proud of.

What You’ll Need:

  • 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 think about platform work in terms of customer impact, not just engineering elegance.
  • You've navigated the tension between paying down tech debt and shipping product, and you can articulate how you made those calls.
  • Excellent communication skills. You can translate platform strategy into language that product, design, and business leaders understand.
  • You have an insatiable desire to ship.

Nice To Have:

  • Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows or agentic software development.
  • Experience building internal developer platforms.
  • 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.

Location:

  • Onsite 4 days/week in San Francisco, CA

Why You'll Love Working at Airbyte:

  • 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
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