Junior Engineer-Database Sources

Junior Engineer-Database Sources

Requirements

• Computer Science or adjacent degree (completion by May 2025) or boot camp graduate/self-taught programmer with Data/Software Engineering experience.
• Familiarity with databases/warehouses (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Iceberg, Snowflake)
• You are comfortable coding in Java/Kotlin and writing SQL
• Excellent technical research skills (the problems we face don’t have answers on Stackoverflow, we need to get into the weeds and run experiments).
• You describe yourself as an analytical, self-starter with a growth mindset.
• You have an insatiable desire to ship.
• You enjoy building abstractions & tools which multiply output.
• You are passionate about continuous learning and improvement (both at a personal and team level)
• Belief in our values.

Responsibilities

• Own core technologies: Contribute connectors to Airbyte’s connector platform, open-source platform, and cloud product. Deploy new features to production and manage the ongoing improvements of a fleet of high-volume data connectors and their underlying CDK.
• You will add to your developer toolbelt by practicing smart testing using: dependency injection, unit testing, progressive rollouts.
• Address issues in our codebase: Work with internal and external engineers to identify bugs. Use your software and data-engineering skills to debug and unblock customers who are experiencing complex technical issues around our database connector sources. At times, you’ll be accessing live customer data, so care and caution are paramount. Replicate issues, diagnose problematic code or connector/platform versions, and ship fixes.
• Build leverage: Jump into our developer tools to increase monitoring/alerting, write SQL queries, build dashboards, create automation scripts and regularly challenge our engineering processes. A week-long task this year should take ten minutes next year.
• Grow our knowledge base: Document solutions and application behavior to grow our knowledge base both internally and externally. User-facing docs are regularly updated to provide additional clarity and are edited with relevant troubleshooting and limitations.
• Engage with the open-source community: Attend industry and company events, review pull requests, monitor our Slack and Github discussions.
• Grow as a developer: Receive in-person mentorship from some of the best engineers in the industry whilst learning new technologies. Become familiar with distributed systems, data pipelines, blob storage, cloud hosting. Develop a user-centric approach to building products and developer tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Analytical, self-starter with a growth mindset.
• Insatiable desire to ship.
• Enjoy building abstractions & tools which multiply output.
• Passionate about continuous learning and improvement (both at a personal and team level).