Airbyte
Senior Software Engineer, Integrations (API Sources & Automation)- 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, Integrations (API Sources & Automation)- 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:
- Build and evolve the Python systems that power integrations across both Airbyte Data Replication and Airbyte Agents.
- Work on integrations that power both traditional data movement workflows and AI agent use cases, including searchable context, action execution, and real-time business data access.
- Build systems that use AI to detect, diagnose, and remediate connector failures with minimal human intervention.
- Design tooling and abstractions that enable Airbyte engineers to build, roll out, and monitor integrations faster and more reliably.
- Drive initiatives focused on self-healing infrastructure, intelligent retries, automated compatibility fixes, and operational resilience.
- Partner closely with Customer Engineering and Support teams to identify recurring operational issues and eliminate them systematically through automation and platform improvements.
- Lead technically ambiguous projects from exploration through production rollout while balancing speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
- Mentor engineers, raise technical standards, and help shape engineering direction across the integrations ecosystem.
What You’ll Need:
- 5+ years professional experience building backend systems and developer tooling in Python.
- Experience designing extensible frameworks, APIs, automation systems, or platforms used by other engineers.
- Experience leveraging AI or LLM APIs in engineering workflows, developer tooling, operational systems, or product experiences.
- Ability to independently drive large or ambiguous technical initiatives and make strong tradeoff decisions with business context in mind.
- Strong systems thinking and debugging skills across complex distributed or integration-heavy environments.
- Experience improving engineering velocity and operational reliability through automation and platform investments.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, support, and customer-facing teams.
- Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team.
- A strong bias toward shipping, iteration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Passion for developer experience and building tools that make other engineers dramatically more effective.
- Belief in our values and a willingness to own outcomes end-to-end.
Nice To Have:
- Experience working with data integration systems, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, or connector frameworks.
- Familiarity with Airbyte CDKs, Connector Builder, MCP servers, agent tooling, or low-code integration platforms.
- Experience building AI agents, operational automation systems, or self-healing infrastructure.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects.
- Familiarity with rollout strategies, progressive deployments, compatibility migrations, or automated remediation systems.
- Experience working with large-scale API ecosystems and handling schema evolution, rate limiting, or unreliable upstream systems.
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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