Engineering Manager, Platform

The role

You will lead a team of Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs responsible for infrastructure, tooling, and engineering systems. You will manage cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, and reliability for Airbyte Cloud, Airbyte Flex, and Airbyte Agents.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs.
• Own the reliability and operational health of Airbyte's production systems.
• Define the roadmap for Airbyte's platform including infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability.
• Drive adoption of AI-powered workflows for debugging, release validation, and infrastructure management.
• Lead incident response and run blameless postmortems.
• Reduce operational toil through automation.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years managing engineering teams
• Experience leading Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, or Developer Productivity organizations
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems
• Experience operating production systems at scale
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows or agentic software development
• Experience building internal developer platforms
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and cloud-native infrastructure
• Experience with data infrastructure, ETL/ELT, or large-scale distributed systems
• Experience contributing to open-source engineering organizations
• Familiarity with Airbyte, connector ecosystems, or developer tooling platforms

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 an open source company with a platform that powers analytics and provides business context to AI agents. It is used by more than 25,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500.