Senior Software Engineer, Integrations (Databases)

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

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior software engineer to help build Airbyte's AI-powered Integration Factory. You will design systems that automatically generate, validate, repair, and maintain connectors, and develop tooling and workflows used across hundreds of integrations.

You will work with Java/Kotlin, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines, mentoring engineers and improving developer experience. On-call rotations and technical leadership are expected.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in production systems.
• Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, BigQuery, Databricks, S3).
• Deep understanding of SQL, query optimization, and database internals.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and AI components (embeddings, tools, evals).
• Experience building or operating distributed systems in production.
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin (or another JVM language) and cross-language work.
• Experience building developer tooling, automation, CI/CD pipelines, or platform infrastructure.
• Strong debugging skills for production systems and on-call readiness.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Airbyte's AI-powered Integration Factory.
• Design intelligent systems to generate, validate, repair, and maintain connectors automatically.
• Develop tooling, GitHub Actions, workflows, and internal platforms used across hundreds of integrations.
• Build database connectors with CDC, replication logs, query optimization, and schema evolution.
• Improve reliability by auto-detecting and remediating production issues.
• Manage dependency updates, compatibility testing, release automation, and connector health.
• Contribute to Airbyte's AI Skills repository and establish AI-assisted software patterns.
• Drive engineering velocity through automation and reusable tooling.
• Participate in on-call rotation and improve systems to reduce operational burden.
• Collaborate to improve internal developer experience and platform capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar through design reviews and documentation.

Skills

Senior software engineer

Relational databases

SQL optimization

AI-assisted software development

Distributed systems

Java / Kotlin / JVM

CI/CD / developer tooling

Debugging complex systems

Technical leadership

On-call readiness

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

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.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
• Strong experience with relational databases such as 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 creation of 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 working 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 simply performing it manually.
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction across teams without formal authority.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.