Senior Software Engineer, Platform Fullstack - Hiring Sprint
Airbyte · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineering$196k–$255k/yrFull-time
What You’ll Do
- Build Internal Platform Products
- Design and build applications that power Airbyte's engineering platform and product surfaces.
- Develop internal dashboards for deployments, infrastructure health, connector operations, and platform performance.
- Build and improve user-facing features in Airbyte Cloud and Flex, working closely with product and design.
- Create self-service tools that enable engineers to provision infrastructure, manage services, and troubleshoot production systems.
- Build Across the Stack
- Build modern React and TypeScript applications backed by scalable backend services.
- Develop APIs and services that support both internal engineering workflows and customer-facing product features.
- Collaborate with Platform Engineers, SREs, Product Engineering, Product Managers, and Designers to ship high-quality software.
- Improve the usability and reliability of the systems that power Airbyte's products, for both internal and external users.
- Improve Developer Experience
- Build tooling that automates repetitive engineering work and reduces friction across the org.
- Improve release workflows, deployment visibility, and operational dashboards.
- Contribute to the quality of user-facing product surfaces: performance, accessibility, and reliability.
- Help establish engineering standards and reusable platform components.
- Drive Operational Excellence
- Create tools that help engineers and customers understand system health, deployment status, and service reliability.
- Improve visibility into platform performance through dashboards, metrics, and reporting.
- Continuously identify opportunities to reduce operational toil through automation.
What You’ll Need
- 5+ years of experience building production fullstack applications.
- Deep expertise with React and TypeScript.
- Strong backend engineering experience building APIs and distributed systems.
- Experience shipping user-facing SaaS products alongside internal tools, developer platforms, or operational dashboards.
- Experience working with product managers and designers to ship customer-facing features.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and modern deployment workflows.
- Strong product instincts and customer empathy, whether your user is an engineer or an external customer.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- A bias toward ownership, automation, and shipping.
Nice To Have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, or developer productivity tooling.
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Grafana, Datadog, or Prometheus.
- Experience with Java or Kotlin.
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience building internal engineering tools or developer platforms.
- Familiarity with data infrastructure or large-scale SaaS platforms.