Startups

Staff Backend Engineer, Agent Infrastructure

Airbyte · San Francisco · Remote

← All jobs
About Airbyte

Airbyte is the open-source data movement platform. Run ELT pipelines across 700+ connectors to any warehouse, lake, vector database, or AI agent. Backed by Accel.

About the role

Airbyte is incubating new product opportunities at the intersection of data, AI, and developer infrastructure. Our small team builds tooling and infrastructure for data practitioners and software engineers, leveraging Airbyte's foundation in enterprise connectivity. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • You may be a strong fit if you are fundamentally a backend or platform engineer who has shipped AI-powered products
  • 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 and shipping AI-powered products using LLMs, agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, or similar technologies
  • Experience with orchestration systems, workflow engines, developer platforms, or infrastructure products
More about this role

We’re on a mission to make data available and actionable to everyone, everywhere. With 700+ connectors, our platform powers analytics and gives AI agents the business context they need to do real work. More than 25,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Airbyte to put their data to work.

We’re built on open source because we believe companies should have full control over their data. A community of 27K members helps shape what we build, and we’re backed by $181M from investors including Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, and Y Combinator.

Models keep getting better. What holds AI back is the data informing and shaping its decisions, and that's the layer we're building.

We’re just getting started. If you’re excited by big challenges, meaningful ownership, and the chance to help build what’s next, we’d love to meet you.

Airbyte is incubating new product opportunities at the intersection of data, AI, and developer infrastructure. Our small team builds tooling and infrastructure for data practitioners and software engineers, leveraging Airbyte's foundation in enterprise connectivity.

This is not an ML research or prompt engineering role. We're looking for an...

Read the full posting on Airbyte's site ↗

Engineering

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.