Senior Software Engineer, Platform Fullstack - Hiring Sprint

Airbyte•San Francisco, CA

1d•$196,000 - $255,000•Onsite

About The Position

Airbyte is the data and action layer for AI agents, providing them with fast, accurate, authenticated access to business data across hundreds of sources. The company has raised $181M and is focused on building context infrastructure for production-grade agents. This role is part of an Engineering Hiring Sprint, an expedited process for exceptional candidates. The Platform team builds the systems powering all Airbyte products, including infrastructure, internal tooling, developer platforms, and user-facing surfaces. As a Senior Fullstack Engineer on Platform, you will work across the full stack to build internal tools that accelerate engineering and user-facing features for customers, moving between internal dashboards and product features in Airbyte Cloud. This role is for engineers who value craft across the entire stack and believe in the power of great platform work.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building production fullstack applications.
Deep expertise with React and TypeScript.
Strong backend engineering experience building APIs and distributed systems.
Experience shipping user-facing SaaS products alongside internal tools, developer platforms, or operational dashboards.
Experience working with product managers and designers to ship customer-facing features.
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment workflows.
Strong product instincts and customer empathy, whether your user is an engineer or an external customer.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
A bias toward ownership, automation, and shipping.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, or developer productivity tooling.
Familiarity with observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus.
Experience with Java or Kotlin.
Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
Experience building internal engineering tools or developer platforms.
Familiarity with data infrastructure or large-scale SaaS platforms.

Responsibilities

Design and build applications that power Airbyte's engineering platform and product surfaces.
Develop internal dashboards for deployments, infrastructure health, connector operations, and platform performance.
Build and improve user-facing features in Airbyte Cloud and Flex, working closely with product and design.
Create self-service tools that enable engineers to provision infrastructure, manage services, and troubleshoot production systems.
Build modern React and TypeScript applications backed by scalable backend services.
Design APIs and services that support both internal engineering workflows and customer-facing product features.
Collaborate with Platform Engineers, SREs, Product Engineering, Product Managers, and Designers to ship high-quality software.
Improve the usability and reliability of the systems that power Airbyte's products, for both internal and external users.
Build tooling that automates repetitive engineering work and reduces friction across the org.
Improve release workflows, deployment visibility, and operational dashboards.
Contribute to the quality of user-facing product surfaces: performance, accessibility, and reliability.
Help establish engineering standards and reusable platform components.
Build interfaces that improve observability, incident response, and production operations.
Create tools that help engineers and customers understand system health, deployment status, and service reliability.
Improve visibility into platform performance through dashboards, metrics, and reporting.
Continuously identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through automation.
Mentor engineers through design reviews, architecture discussions, and technical leadership.
Raise the quality bar for frontend architecture, testing, accessibility, and maintainability.
Contribute to platform-wide engineering standards and best practices.
Help shape the future of Airbyte's platform and product engineering.