Senior Software Engineer — AI‑Driven Connector Platform

airbyte; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Parental leave 16 weeks

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Dev & learning budget

Commuter benefits

Office meals in SF

Job summary

Airbyte is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-powered Integration Factory and connectors, sitting at the intersection of databases, AI, and developer tooling. You’ll design intelligent systems that create, validate, repair, and maintain connectors, and develop shared tooling and CI/CD pipelines used across hundreds of integrations.

You will contribute to AI-focused tooling, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate across teams to improve platform

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, BigQuery, Databricks, S3 or similar).
• Deep understanding of SQL, query optimization, and database internals.
• Demonstrated experience with AI-assisted software development, including using LLMs in the engineering workflow and AI system components such as embeddings, skills, tools, evals, etc.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin (or another JVM language) and comfort across multiple programming languages.
• Experience building developer tooling, automation, CI/CD pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
• Strong debugging skills with the ability to investigate complex production issues.
• Curiosity about building systems that automate engineering work rather than manual execution.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal authority.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Airbyte’s AI-powered Integration Factory.
• Design intelligent systems that generate, validate, repair, and maintain connectors automatically.
• Develop shared tooling, frameworks, GitHub Actions, scheduled workflows, and internal developer platforms used across hundreds of integrations.
• Build highly reliable database connectors with deep support for database-specific capabilities including Change Data Capture (CDC), replication logs, query optimization, and schema evolution.
• Improve connector reliability by building systems that automatically detect, diagnose, and remediate production issues.
• Build infrastructure that manages dependency updates, compatibility testing, release automation, and connector health.
• Contribute to Airbyte’s growing AI Skills repository and help establish patterns for AI-assisted software development.
• Drive step-function improvements in engineering velocity through automation and reusable tooling.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to production issues while continually improving the systems that reduce operational burden.
• Collaborate across engineering to improve internal developer experience and platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design reviews, documentation, and technical leadership.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

SQL

Relational databases

Distributed systems

AI-assisted software development

debugging

On-call readiness

Communication

Leadership influence

Tools

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Developer platforms

Job description

Airbyte is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build the AI-powered Integration Factory and connectors, sitting at the intersection of databases, AI, and developer tooling. You’ll design intelligent systems that create, validate, repair, and maintain connectors, and develop shared tooling and CI/CD pipelines used across hundreds of integrations.

You will contribute to AI-focused tooling, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate across teams to improve platform