Staff Backend Engineer, AI Infra & Data

Airbyte; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 180.000 - 280.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Professional development budget

Commuter benefits

Meals in SF office

Collaborative in-person culture

Descripción de la vacante

Airbyte is seeking an experienced backend/platform engineer to build production-grade infrastructure at the intersection of data, AI, and developer tooling. You’ll own technical explorations, prototype ideas, and drive them to production while collaborating with customers, Product, Design, and cross‑functional teams.

We value someone who ships AI-powered services, designs scalable systems, and communicates clearly.

Formación

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience designing distributed systems.
• Experience building complex systems involving APIs, asynchronous workflows, concurrency, queues, state, retries, or distributed execution.
• Hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered products using LLMs, agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, or similar technologies.
• Experience with orchestration systems, workflow engines, developer platforms, or infrastructure products.
• Strong system design skills and the ability to reason about reliability, scale, observability, and failure modes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction across teams and influence architectural and engineering decisions.
• Ability to move quickly from prototype to production without sacrificing engineering quality.

Responsabilidades

• Take new ideas from prototype to production and improve them through customer feedback and real-world usage.
• Build reliable, observable systems that are easier to operate, debug, and improve over time.
• Use technical experiments and engineering judgment to make better product and architecture decisions.
• Lead technical decisions that make systems simpler, more reliable, and easier for other teams to build on.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs & async workflows

AI-powered products

Leadership across teams

Reliability & observability

Prototyping to production

Herramientas

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Spark

Orchestration systems

Descripción del empleo

Airbyte is seeking an experienced backend/platform engineer to build production-grade infrastructure at the intersection of data, AI, and developer tooling. You’ll own technical explorations, prototype ideas, and drive them to production while collaborating with customers, Product, Design, and cross‑functional teams.

We value someone who ships AI-powered services, designs scalable systems, and communicates clearly.