Engineering Manager (Platform)

Join Airbyte, a fast-growing company in the data integration space. As an Engineering Manager for the Platform team, you will lead the engineers responsible for cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and internal tooling. Your work will directly impact engineering velocity and customer experience. This role combines people leadership, technical strategy, operational excellence, and platform thinking. You will define the roadmap for Airbyte's platform and drive the adoption of AI-powered workflows.

• Lead and mentor a team of Platform Engineers, Fullstack Engineers, and SREs, and recruit engineers who understand that infrastructure decisions are product decisions.
• Define the roadmap for Airbyte's platform, including infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment automation, observability, internal tooling, and the product surfaces built on top of them.
• Own the reliability and operational health of Airbyte's production systems, lead incident response, run blameless postmortems, and ensure systemic fixes follow every outage.
• You think about platform work in terms of customer impact, not just engineering elegance
• Experience leading Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, or Developer Productivity organizations
• Experience operating production systems at scale
• You've navigated the tension between paying down tech debt and shipping product, and you can articulate how you made those calls
• You have an insatiable desire to ship
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, 2+ years managing engineering teams
• 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 building internal developer platforms
• Experience contributing to open-source engineering organizations
• Experience with data infrastructure, ETL/ELT, or large-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with Airbyte, connector ecosystems, or developer tooling platforms
• If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, moving quickly, embracing AI, and taking ownership of your work, we'd love to meet you
• If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all of the requirements!