# Senior Backend Engineer, Agent Infrastructure at Airbyte

- Company: Airbyte
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://airbyte.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $196K to $235K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airbyte/b59bbc91-fb77-4a08-9c47-0fca7f755942
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airbyte-senior-backend-engineer-agent-infrastructure/

## About the role

Airbyte is building the runtime that powers production-grade AI agents. This is not an ML research or prompt engineering role. We’re looking for an experienced backend or platform engineer who has built complex production systems and has also worked hands-on with AI agents, orchestration, retrieval, or LLM-powered applications.

## What they're looking for

- You may be a strong fit if you are fundamentally a backend or platform engineer who has also spent meaningful time building production AI systems
- 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

Tags: Engineering