Open-Source Strategy Lead

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • $200,000 PA - $250,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Airbyte is seeking an Open-Source Strategy Lead with expertise in data engineering, pipelines, and connectors. The role involves creating hands-on technical content, engaging with the engineering community, and demonstrating how Airbyte integrates into modern data stacks. Responsibilities include building tutorials, sample repositories, walkthrough videos, and blog posts focusing on real-world data pipelines and troubleshooting. The position also requires representing Airbyte in various technical communities like GitHub and Slack, providing guidance, and capturing community feedback for product improvement. Additionally, the role entails building and maintaining demo pipelines, contributing to the Airbyte OSS repository, and partnering with Solutions Engineering for technical onboarding.
Must have:
  • 5+ years in developer advocacy, data engineering, or related roles
  • Proficiency in Python and modern data tools (Airflow, dbt, Spark, SQL-based warehouses)
  • Experience creating high-quality technical content
  • Strong grasp of data movement patterns (batch vs streaming, CDC, schema evolution)
  • Clear communicator with public speaking experience
  • Track record of engaging in technical communities
Good to have:
  • Experience building or maintaining open-source connectors
  • Familiarity with GenAI/ML use cases
  • Contribution to data ecosystem projects (DBT, Apache Iceberg)
  • Understanding of data governance, observability, and pipeline reliability
  • Comfort with hybrid architectures, cloud platforms
  • Familiarity with Airbyte or competing tools
Perks:
  • Relocation assistance for San Francisco roles
  • Unlimited paid time off (minimum 25 days)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Book purchases for professional development
  • Sponsorship for conferences and training programs
  • 100% coverage for Medical Insurance (Blue Shield or Kaiser) for employees and dependents
  • 100% coverage for Dental & Vision Insurance (including child & adult orthodontics) for employees and dependents
  • 100% coverage for Life and AD&D Insurance for employees
  • 100% coverage for Short-term Disability Insurance for employees
  • 100% coverage for Long-term Disability Insurance for employees
  • Healthcare insurance stipend for those outside the U.S.
  • 401k for U.S. based employees
  • FSA for U.S. based employees
  • Work visa discussions on a case by case basis

Job Details

Airbyte is the open-source standard for Data Movement. We enable data teams to move data from applications, APIs, unstructured sources, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, AI applications and LLMs. With our approach we are finally solving the need for extensibility and control that every company needs with data.
 
So far, our customers, users, and ourselves have built over 15,000 connectors and have had 200,000+ companies install Airbyte. We've raised $181M from the world's top investors (Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, Y Combinator, etc.) and we believe in product-led growth, where we build something awesome that all our users love.
 
We’re committed to providing as much context to our current employees and candidates. The Airbyte company handbook is open to all.
 
If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all requirements.
 
Opportunity

We’re looking for a Open-Source Strategy Lead who lives and breathes data engineering – pipelines, connectors, ingestion at scale, and making ELT workflows just work. At Airbyte, we’re building the open-source standard for data movement. In this role, you’ll create hands-on technical content, engage deeply with the engineering community, and help practitioners see how Airbyte fits into their modern stack. From batch to real-time, self-managed to hybrid cloud.

This is a highly visible, high-impact role. You’ll work across product, engineering, growth and community to drive adoption and shape the experience of thousands of data engineers moving mission-critical data every day.

What You'll Do

Content Creation

  • Build tutorials, sample repos, walkthrough videos, blog posts, and live sessions showing how to use Airbyte in real-world pipelines (e.g., syncing Salesforce to Snowflake, Change Data Capture into Iceberg, etc.)
  • Develop resources tailored to the daily work of data engineers: troubleshooting sync failures, managing schema drift, scaling connectors, etc.
  • Cover both self-hosted and cloud-native workflows, including Airbyte Cloud and orchestration with tools like Airflow, Dagster, and dbt.

 Community Engagement

  • Represent Airbyte across GitHub, Slack, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and more. Responding to questions, offering guidance, and spotlighting great community contributions.
  • Help reduce time-to-value for new users by sharing patterns, recipes, and config examples that work.
  • Capture feedback from data engineers in the field and bring those insights back to our product and docs teams.

Technical Enablement

  • Build and maintain demo pipelines and open-source starter kits showing how Airbyte integrates with core parts of the modern data stack: cloud data warehouses, lakehouses, pub/sub systems, and orchestration tools.
  • Contribute code, docs, or utilities to the Airbyte OSS repo as needed to help improve the developer experience.
  • Partner with Solutions Engineering and Support to scale enablement materials for technical onboarding.

Developer Advocacy

  • Speak at data meetups, conferences, and webinars about lessons learned in building reliable, scalable data pipelines.
  • Share best practices and operational playbooks around connector development, ELT architectures, and hybrid deployments.
  • Support partner integrations with vendors across the data ecosystem (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, dbt, etc.)
 
What You'll Need
  • 5+ years in developer advocacy, data engineering, or related roles with strong technical and skills
  • Proficiency in Python and modern data tools (Airflow, dbt, Spark, SQL-based warehouses, etc.)
  • Demonstrated experience creating high-quality technical content: blog posts, code repos, YouTube tutorials, etc.
  • Strong grasp of data movement patterns: batch vs streaming, change data capture (CDC), schema evolution
  • Clear communicator with public speaking experience and a passion for making engineers’ lives easier
  • Track record of engaging in technical communities (open-source contributions, forum participation, etc.)
  • You share our values

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building or maintaining open-source connectors
  • Familiarity with GenAI/ML use cases involving unstructured data, RAG, and agent-based pipelines.
  • Track record of contributing to data ecosystem projects such as DBT or Apache Iceberg.
  • Understanding of data governance, observability, and pipeline reliability at scale
  • Comfort with hybrid architectures, cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), and containerized deployments.
  • Familiarity with Airbyte or competing tools

Location

  • San Francisco. Onsite 3x/week.
Salary
  • $200,000 - $250,000 base salary + a generous equity package, and benefits listed below for the U.S. market.

We Provide 

The benefits listed below are for U.S. employees.

  • Relocation - should you apply to a San Francisco based role, Airbyte will assist with U.S. relocation to make this a seamless transition and compensate you well.
  • Unlimited paid time off - we need you at your best at all times. Our expected minimum time off of 25 PTO days per year lets you schedule your work around your life.
  • Parental leave (for new parents) - we offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents so you have time to adjust to the new life (and work) schedule introduced by your new bundle of joy.
  • Open book policy - we will pay for books you purchase for your professional and career development. 
  • Continuous learning/training policy - we sponsor you for the conferences and training programs you feel would add to your development in the company. 
  • Competitive benefits package for employees - including:
    • Blue Shield or Kaiser Medical Insurance 
      • Airbyte covers 100% for both employees and dependents
    • Dental (including child & adult ortho) & Vision Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for both employees and dependents
    • Life and AD&D Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for employees
    • Short-term Disability Insurance 
      • Airbyte covers 100% for employees 
    • Long-term Disability Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for employees
  • Healthcare insurance stipend - for those outside the U.S. whose countries do not provide it for free.
  • 401k - for U.S. based employees.
  • FSA - flexible spending account for U.S. based employees.
  • Work visas - all visa requests will be discussed on a case by case basis to determine if we can sponsor.

 

Airbyte is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

 

Airbyte is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.

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About The Company

Airbyte is the open-source standard for Data Movement. We enable data teams to move data from applications, APIs, unstructured sources, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, AI applications and LLMs. With our approach we are finally solving the need for extensibility and control that every company needs with data. So far, our customers, users, and ourselves have built over 10,000 connectors and have had 200,000+ companies install Airbyte. We've raised $181M from the world's top investors (Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, Y Combinator, etc.) and we believe in product-led growth, where we build something awesome that all our users love.

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