Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The role

You will be one of two infrastructure and reliability specialists on the Data Replication team. You will build and maintain infrastructure, set reliability standards, and ship backend application code.

What you will do

• Own the infrastructure underpinning the Data Replication platform including Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, networking, and cloud resource configuration across AWS and GCP
• Ship backend features and fixes in application code alongside product engineers
• Improve performance and efficiency at scale
• Help ship safely into customer-managed environments
• Evolve observability, alerting, and anomaly detection
• Build AI-augmented release and internal tooling
• Set the infrastructure bar for the team by building self-serve tooling, writing runbooks, and coaching engineers

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps
• Hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform in production environments
• Deep experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and on-call operations
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline ownership and developer tooling
• Experience shipping changes to backend services in Go, Java, Kotlin, or Python
• Strong design judgment
• Fluency with AI tools: LLMs and agentic frameworks to automate, debug faster, and reduce toil
• A startup-ready mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, moving fast, and owning problems end to end

Nice to have

• Data pipelines, replication systems, or ETL/ELT platforms
• Control plane / data plane architectures or internal developer platforms
• Shipping software customers run in their own environments (Helm charts, upgrade paths, varied configurations)
• Experience with Airbyte, CDKs, or connector-based architectures

Benefits

• 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

Before you apply

• We are not accepting agency submissions or recruiting firm support for this role
• Unsolicited resumes will not be considered

About the company

Airbyte is on a mission to make data available and actionable to everyone, everywhere. Their platform powers analytics and is used by more than 25,000 companies.