Engineering Manager, Platform

- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs. Recruit engineers who understand that infrastructure decisions are product decisions.

- Own the reliability and operational health of Airbyte's production systems.

- Define the roadmap for Airbyte's platform: infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, internal tooling, and the product surfaces built on top of them.

- Invest in and drive adoption of AI-powered workflows for debugging, release validation, infrastructure management, and developer productivity, moving past experimentation into real operational leverage.

- Lead incident response, run blameless postmortems, and ensure systemic fixes follow every outage. Continuously reduce operational toil through automation.

- Build leverage: a week-long task this year should take ten minutes next year.

- Engineers deploy with confidence and ship faster quarter over quarter.

- Platform reliability improves as measured by customer-facing SLAs, not just internal dashboards.

- Operational toil decreases through automation, not heroics.

- Incidents are detected faster, resolved faster, and the same failure doesn't happen twice.

- Your team is engaged, growing, and building careers they're proud of.

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, 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.

- You think about platform work in terms of customer impact, not just engineering elegance.

- You've navigated the tension between paying down tech debt and shipping product, and you can articulate how you made those calls.

- Excellent communication skills. You can translate platform strategy into language that product, design, and business leaders understand.

- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows or agentic software development.

- Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and cloud-native infrastructure.

- Experience with data infrastructure, ETL/ELT, or large-scale distributed systems.

- Experience contributing to open-source engineering organizations.

- Familiarity with Airbyte, connector ecosystems, or developer tooling platforms.

Platform Engineering is the force multiplier for every engineering team at Airbyte.

Your mission is to build the systems, tooling, and infrastructure that enable engineers to move faster while making our platform more reliable, secure, and scalable. Success means every deployment becomes safer, every incident becomes easier to resolve, every engineer becomes more productive, and AI becomes a natural part of how software is built.

The best platform teams are invisible-they make everyone else dramatically more effective. That's the team you'll build.