AI Runtime Architect for Trustworthy Agents

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Healthcare coverage

401(k)

Developer budget

Commuter benefits

Meals in office

Job summary

Airbyte is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the AI Runtime that powers trustworthy AI agents. You will design orchestration, context assembly, and evidence retrieval across enterprise systems.

Collaborate with product, design, and customer success to ship production-grade features and agent-centric tooling. The role emphasizes ownership, rapid prototyping, and building scalable backend systems to support real-time evidence, permissions, and action policies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture.
• Experience building AI applications using LLMs, agents, RAG, MCP, or modern AI frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including APIs, concurrency, testing, and system design.
• Experience building developer platforms, orchestration systems, or workflow engines.
• Ability to rapidly prototype while maintaining production quality.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the orchestration layer that turns natural-language intent into reliable execution.
• Build systems for entity resolution, context assembly, connector orchestration, and evidence retrieval.
• Develop reusable Skills that encapsulate business workflows and domain expertise.
• Build routing systems that intelligently coordinate connectors, tools, deterministic logic, and multiple language models.
• Own features end-to-end, from runtime capability to user-facing experience.
• Develop evidence-backed reasoning with citations and traceability that users can actually see and verify.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

APIs

Concurrency

Testing

System design

AI / LLM integration

Product intuition

Job description

Airbyte is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the AI Runtime that powers trustworthy AI agents. You will design orchestration, context assembly, and evidence retrieval across enterprise systems.

Collaborate with product, design, and customer success to ship production-grade features and agent-centric tooling. The role emphasizes ownership, rapid prototyping, and building scalable backend systems to support real-time evidence, permissions, and action policies.