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# Senior Recruiter (Contract) at Airbyte

- **Company:** Airbyte
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airbyte/5e931ae0-a4ce-4760-88a6-4b875f543fad

## Job description

Airbyte is the data and action layer for AI agents. We give agents fast, accurate, authenticated access to business data across hundreds of sources, so they can discover the entities that matter, reason over real-time context, and take action in the systems they read from, not just observe them.

We started as the open-source standard for data movement and proved the economics of data integration at scale: hundreds of connectors, thousands of companies, and, since 2020, have raised $181M from leading investors including Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, and Y Combinator. As our CEO Michel Tricot puts it, "the last ten years were all about structured data. The future is all about context." We're now building that context infrastructure for production-grade agents on the same open foundation, as agents become the primary consumers of enterprise data.

Our mission is unchanged: make data available and actionable to everyone, everywhere. That everyone now includes AI agents.

The Role: We’re looking for an experienced Senior Recruiter to join Airbyte on a 6-month contract and help us hire exceptional talent across the company.

In this role, you’ll own full-cycle recruiting across a mix of GTM and technical roles, flexing your focus based on the needs of the business. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to define profiles, build targeted sourcing strategies, assess talent, and move searches forward with urgency.

We’re looking for someone who is highly proactive, has strong sourcing instincts, and understands the competitive talent landscape in San Francisco. You should be comfortable operating independently, bringing a point of view to searches, and coaching hiring managers when the market or candidate feedback suggests we need to recalibrate.

This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys sourcing, has a strong eye for talent across different functions, communicates clearly, and can keep multiple searches organized and moving in a fast-paced environment.

This role is estimated to work 40 hours per week.

What You’ll Do:

- Own full-cycle recruiting from intake through offer
- Proactively source and engage high-quality candidates using LinkedIn, referrals, networking, and other creative strategies
- Conduct screening conversations to assess experience, skills, and alignment
- Drive interview coordination and ensure a seamless, timely experience for candidates and interviewers
- Maintain accurate pipeline data and reporting within Ashby
- Act as a strategic partner to hiring managers by sharing market insights, candidate feedback, and recommendations throughout the search
- Support offer development and negotiation to help close top talent
- Contribute to continuous improvement of recruiting processes, messaging, and tools

What You’ll Need:

- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience hiring for both technical and non-technical roles
- Proven ability to source and engage candidates across diverse role types and seniority levels
- Experience with applicant tracking systems such as Ashby and managing candidate flow
- Experience recruiting in the San Francisco Bay Area and familiarity with the local talent market
- Ability to use pipeline data and candidate feedback to identify issues and recommend changes to a search
- Ability to operate independently as a contractor, managing priorities and deadlines

Location:

- Remote, with a preference for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area who can occasionally work from our SF office

Why You'll Love Working at Airbyte: At Airbyte, we believe great work happens when people feel supported, trusted, and empowered to grow. Our market-leading Total Rewards package is designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. Our benefits and perks include:

- Flexible PTO with a culture that encourages at least 25 days off annually
- 16 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Professional development budget, conference sponsorship, and book reimbursement
- Commuter benefits and monthly internet reimbursement
- Breakfast and lunch in our San Francisco office
- A collaborative, in-person culture focused on learning, growth, and impact

If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all of the requirements!

We are not accepting agency submissions or recruiting firm support for this role. Unsolicited resumes will not be considered.

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 accommodations due to a disability.

## About Airbyte

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Airbyte provides the context layer for production-grade AI agents, enabling them to reason across live enterprise data through a unified, queryable Context Store.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; Total Funding: $181.3M)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Michel Tricot (CEO), Jean Lafleur (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data Integration & AI Context Infrastructure (Software Development)
- **Target customers**: B2B; serving data teams, AI/ML engineers, and enterprise organizations (25,000+ companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500).
- **Mission statement**: “Make data available and actionable to everyone, everywhere.”

## Products & Services
- **Airbyte Cloud**: Fully managed, cloud-hosted ELT platform that syncs data from 600+ connectors to data warehouses, lakes, and other destinations.
- **Airbyte Enterprise (Self-Managed)**: Deploy Airbyte within the customer’s own cloud environment (VPC) for maximum security and compliance.
- **Airbyte Agents (Context Layer)**: A new product providing a queryable Context Store that gives AI agents unified, permission-aware access to operational data across CRM, billing, support, product, and internal systems—without stitching APIs at runtime.
- **Connector Builder & PyAirbyte**: Tools and SDKs for building custom connectors quickly, including an open-source library (PyAirbyte) for Python-based data pipeline orchestration.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (raised $181.3M from top-tier investors).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $181.3M.
- **Notable Investors**: Benchmark (led Series A), Accel, Altimeter Capital, Coatue Management, Y Combinator.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Platform scaled to handle billions of records daily.
    - Open-source community: 1,300+ contributors, 20,000+ GitHub stars.
    - Customers include Rakuten, 1Password, Nebius; 20% of the Fortune 500 uses Airbyte.
    - Pivot into AI agent context infrastructure positions the company at the forefront of a major market shift.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive connector footprint**: 600+ pre-built connectors (and growing), covering the long tail of data sources that no single vendor can support.
- **Hybrid architecture**: Combines large-scale replication (for cross-system search and discovery) with real-time fetching (for fresh operational state)—purpose-built for production AI agents.
- **Open-source core**: Community-powered connector maintenance and innovation; reduces vendor lock-in and ensures transparency.
- **Top-tier investor backing**: Access to capital and strategic guidance from Benchmark, Accel, Coatue, and others.

## Strategic Focus
- **Pivot to AI**: Expanding from a pure data replication platform to “context infrastructure” for AI agents. The mission is now to serve agents as primary consumers of enterprise data, not just analysts and dashboards.
- **Product development**: Heavy investment in Airbyte Agents and the context layer, with plans to make the platform faster, more reliable, and more deeply integrated into AI workflows.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Scaling sales and go-to-market engine to capture the enterprise market (Jean Lafleur, COO, leads this effort).
- **Open-source sustainability**: Maintaining a vibrant contributor community while building a commercial product that sits on top.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Named one of Built In’s Best Startup Places to Work. Emphasis on “experimentation, adaptation, and a relentless drive to deliver impactful solutions.” Employee-led Diversity Network Groups (Women at Airbyte, Airbyte Pride, LatinX & AAPI).
- **Working model**: In-office collaboration in San Francisco (FiDi) four days a week. The company believes in the value of in-person work for culture, collaboration, and innovation.
- **Engineering culture**: Open by default; heavy contributor community; engineering-led product (45% of staff in technical roles). Opportunities to work on cutting-edge problems at the intersection of data and AI.
- **Benefits**:
    - Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage (employer-sponsored).
    - 16 weeks fully paid parental leave (all genders/paths to parenthood).
    - Unlimited vacation policy (encouraged minimum of 25 days off per year, including holidays).
    - 401(k) retirement plan for U.S. employees.
    - Pre-tax commuter FSA with company contribution (SF HQ).
    - Professional development: book reimbursements, conference sponsorships, internal growth culture.
- **Team**: ~100 employees (slight contraction over the past year). Leadership team is strong: Michel Tricot (CEO, ex-LiveRamp), Jean Lafleur (COO, serial entrepreneur), Davin Chia (CTO). Senior talent sourced from LiveRamp, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Elastic, New Relic.

## Sources
1. [airbyte.com](https://airbyte.com/)
2. [airbyte.com/company/about-us](https://airbyte.com/company/about-us)
3. [airbyte.com/company/careers](https://airbyte.com/company/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/airbytehq](https://br.linkedin.com/company/airbytehq)
5. [craft.co/airbyte](https://craft.co/airbyte)

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