Director, Developer Relations

Opportunity

We’re looking for a Director of Developer Relations who lives and breathes data engineering—pipelines, connectors, ingestion at scale, and making ELT workflows just work. In this role, you will own the entire DevRel function at Airbyte: setting strategy, building the team, and driving global awareness and adoption of the open-source project and enterprise products. You’ll be the public voice of Airbyte, steward its open-source governance, and align ecosystem feedback with product and monetization strategy. From batch to real-time, self-managed to hybrid cloud, you’ll ensure Airbyte remains the first choice for data movement.

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

What You’ll Do

Open-Source Stewardship & Governance

• Lead governance of Airbyte’s OSS projects—roadmap alignment, RFCs, contributor growth, and potential foundation engagements.
• Host regular public town halls and working groups to keep the community informed and involved.
• Champion an “open-source-first” image by partnering with online communities and ensuring transparency in decision-making.

Ecosystem Partnerships & Integrations

• Forge and maintain OSS integrations with tools like DuckDB, Iceberg, Kafka, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, etc.
• Collaborate on joint demos, blogs, and conference talks that showcase combined value and drive adoption.

Community & Feedback Loop

• Capture OSS feedback (feature requests, bugs) and ensure it flows into product planning and monetization discussions.
• Maintain a rapid response cadence across GitHub, Slack, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and other channels to reduce time-to-value for new users.

Content Creation & Advocacy (IC DevRel)

• Lead the production of deep-dive tutorials, sample repos, videos, and live sessions that solve real-world data-engineering pain points.
• Speak at major conferences and meetups, positioning Airbyte at the center of the modern data stack conversation.

Technical Enablement

• Build and maintain demo pipelines and starter kits across warehouses, lakehouses, pub/sub systems, and orchestration frameworks.
• Contribute code, docs, or utilities to the Airbyte OSS repo to continually improve DX.

Team Leadership

• Hire, mentor, and manage a high-performing DevRel team (advocates, educators, community managers).
• Define KPIs for community growth, content reach, and OSS adoption; report results to leadership.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years in developer relations, advocacy, or adjacent engineering roles, including 2+ years leading or managing DevRel teams.
• Deep hands-on experience with Python and modern data tooling (Airflow, dbt, Spark, SQL warehouses, etc.).
• Demonstrated success stewarding or contributing to open-source projects, including governance or foundation work.
• Portfolio of high-quality technical content: blog posts, repos, conference talks, YouTube tutorials.
• Expert knowledge of data-movement patterns: batch vs. streaming, CDC, schema evolution, reliability at scale.
• Proven public-speaking and community-building chops; passion for making engineers’ lives easier.

Bonus Points

• Experience launching or scaling an open-source project within a foundation (LF, Apache, CNCF, etc.).
• Track record of building OSS connectors or maintaining integrations with tools such as DuckDB, Iceberg, Kafka, or dbt.
• Familiarity with GenAI/ML pipelines (RAG, unstructured data ingestion, agent frameworks).
• Understanding of data governance, observability, and hybrid/cloud deployments at enterprise scale.
• Prior familiarity with Airbyte or competing data-integration tools.

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.