Airbyte

Senior Backend Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

Who can apply: US-based role. The employer has not said which states are eligible — confirm before applying.
Location as listed by the employer: “San Francisco”
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About this role

Airbyte is hiring for a Senior Backend Engineer, Agent Infrastructure role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 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 production applications 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.
  • Ability to move quickly from prototype to production without sacrificing engineering quality.
  • Strong product instincts and comfort operating in ambiguous, 0-to-1 environments.

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.