Airbyte
Senior Software Engineer, Agents- Hiring Sprint
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 29, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior Software Engineer, Agents- 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:
- Design and implement the orchestration layer that turns natural-language intent into reliable execution.
- Build systems for entity resolution, context assembly, connector orchestration, and evidence retrieval.
- Develop reusable Skills that encapsulate business workflows and domain expertise.
- Build routing systems that intelligently coordinate connectors, tools, deterministic logic, and multiple language models.
What You’ll Do:
- Own features end-to-end, from runtime capability to user-facing experience.
- Develop evidence-backed reasoning with citations and traceability that users can actually see and verify.
- Build evaluation frameworks that continuously improve quality.
- Implement permission models, freshness validation, and action policies that work transparently for end users.
What You’ll Do:
- Build prototypes, validate ideas, and rapidly iterate with customers.
- Write high-leverage code that enables entire product areas.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success to turn ambitious ideas into production systems.
- Experiment with new agent architectures while maintaining production-grade reliability.
What You’ll Need:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture.
- Experience building AI applications using LLMs, agents, RAG, MCP, or modern AI frameworks.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals including APIs, concurrency, testing, and system design.
- Experience building developer platforms, orchestration systems, or workflow engines.
- Ability to rapidly prototype while maintaining production quality.
- Strong product instincts and comfort operating in ambiguous environments.
- Exceptional written communication skills.
- A bias toward ownership and shipping.
Nice To Have:
- Experience building AI agents or agent frameworks, including evaluation systems.
- Familiarity with orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, Temporal, MCP, or similar).
- Experience with retrieval systems, vector search, or knowledge graphs.
- Experience building developer tools or platform infrastructure.
- Experience with data infrastructure including Kafka, Iceberg, Postgres, Spark, or modern data warehouses.
What Success Looks Like:
- Automatically assemble the right context and choose the correct connectors and Skills.
- Produce evidence-backed answers with citations.
- Enforce permissions and freshness guarantees.
- Learn from failures through replay and evaluation.
- Allow users to ask once and receive a trusted answer.
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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