Airbyte
Engineering Manager, Platform
$217K–$260K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience; 2+ years managing engineering teams.
About the job
Leads Airbyte’s Platform team and strategy, building and operating the infrastructure, deployment systems, and tools that improve engineering velocity and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, recruit, and grow Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs.
- Own platform roadmap and production reliability, including infrastructure, CI/CD, deployments, observability, and internal tooling.
- Lead incident response and operational improvements; drive AI-powered workflows for debugging, release validation, infrastructure management, and developer productivity.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years managing engineering teams.
- Experience leading Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, or Developer Productivity organizations.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems.
- Experience operating production systems at scale.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows or agentic software development.
- Experience building internal developer platforms.
Pay
$217K – $260K USD base salary
Tools
Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Drive adoption of AI-powered workflows for debugging, release validation, infrastructure management, and developer productivity; help define how AI transforms software development and operations.
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