Span is seeking a Senior Airbyte Specialist (Contract) to join their team in San Jose, CA. The role involves acting as a lead advisor and specialist for data movement, focusing on developing and troubleshooting Airbyte connectors.
About the Role
As a Senior Airbyte Specialist, you will partner with the platform engineering team to solve complex Airbyte challenges. Your responsibilities will include designing and maintaining custom Airbyte connectors, troubleshooting connector and sync failures, providing architectural advice on scaling Airbyte on Kubernetes, and creating best practices for connector development. You will also mentor internal engineers to enhance their Airbyte expertise.
About You
Required:
Demonstrable, deep expertise with Airbyte, especially in a large-scale environment.
Proven, expert-level experience developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting custom connectors using the Airbyte Python CDK.
Expert-level theoretical and practical knowledge of Kubernetes as it pertains to Airbyte.
Strong proficiency in Python.
Deep understanding of troubleshooting complex data integration issues, particularly with databases and Change Data Capture (CDC) mechanisms.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred:
Familiarity with the Airbyte Low-Code CDK or the no-code Connector Builder.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).
Hands-on experience designing observability strategies for a distributed system using OpenTelemetry.
Experience contributing to open-source projects.
Benefits
Competitive hourly rate ranging from $60 to $100.
Opportunity to work with a dynamic team focused on innovative software engineering solutions.
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