Senior Software Engineer, Platform Fullstack
About the role
The Role
Build Internal Platform Products
- 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 Across the Stack
- 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.
Improve Developer Experience
- 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.
Drive Operational Excellence
- 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.
Technical Leadership
- 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.
What You’ll Need
- 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 Have
- 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.
What Success Looks Like
Why This Role Matters
Location
- Onsite 4 days/week in San Francisco, CA
Why You'll Love Working at Airbyte
At Airbyte, we believe great work happens when people feel supported, trusted, and empowered to grow. Our market-leading Total Rewards package is designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. Our benefits and perks include:
- Flexible PTO with a culture that encourages at least 25 days off annually, and public holidays in line with provincial employment standards
- Comprehensive health coverage - extended health benefits on top of provincial public healthcare
- Virtual healthcare - access to doctors and other care providers online, so you can get care without waiting
- Retirement savings - a group retirement savings plan to help you build for the future
- Statutory protections - Canada/Québec Pension Plan, Employment Insurance and workers' compensation coverage
- Professional development budget, conference sponsorship, and book reimbursement
If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don't meet all of the requirements!
We are not accepting agency submissions or recruiting firm support for this role. Unsolicited resumes will not be considered.
Airbyte is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Airbyte is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodations due to a disability.
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