Estuary is building the next generation of real-time data integration solutions.

As a Solutions Engineer at Estuary, you’ll work directly with our founding team to help companies unlock the power of their real-time data. Your work will directly shape how users harness their real-time data, driving our product's development and creating seamless user experiences.

Working at the intersection of engineering, product, and customers, this role offers the unique opportunity to influence Estuary’s product roadmap while ensuring a smooth and impactful experience for our users.

We’re looking for individuals with an insatiable curiosity to dive into technical challenges and an empathetic approach to making complex concepts accessible to others. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a startup environment and seeks the freedom to implement ideas without the constraints of a larger company.

As a Solutions Engineer, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of a growing company, with the flexibility to chart your path and take your career to the next level.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on solving specific customer pain points to create a seamless end-to-end experience.
• Lead discovery of user challenges, translating insights into actionable product strategies.
• Develop technical documentation of customer requirements and maintain internal resources.
• Actively engage in user-support channels, addressing questions and issues raised by Flow users.
• Provide hands-on technical support, conducting independent investigations when needed.
• Build strong relationships with customers to act as a trusted conduit, influencing their data strategy.
• Develop a perspective on customer and market trends, sharing insights directly with our founding team to influence product direction.
• Gather and articulate technical feature requests to improve product alignment with customer needs.
  

What We’re Looking For:

• Takes ownership of customer requests, recognizing that timely support over extended business hours (generally 8am - 8pm) enables customer success and helps Estuary grow.
• Willingness to work startup hours (~60 hours per week) alongside the team, with flexibility to meet customer needs and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or related field, or equivalent technical and business experience.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building abilities.
• A natural teacher with empathy for technical and non-technical users, and a genuine desire to make complex topics accessible.
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with two or more programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL, JavaScript) or equivalent technical skills.
• Experience collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to balance customer-centric thinking with strong technical expertise.
• Experience working in startup environments is strongly preferred.

Why Estuary?

• Collaborative, ambitious, high performing team that’s passionate about data and pushing the envelope in technology.
• Early-stage startup: your limit is your imagination, not your job description.
• Remote-first culture with autonomy: work flexibly from anywhere.
• Quarterly offsite meetings in fun locations like Miami, Boulder, and Austin.  Getting to know each other as a team is crucial to our success! 
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.

If you’re passionate about solving complex problems, helping customers succeed, and building for scale, we’d love to hear from you!

Senior Backend Engineer

Remote | Full-time

Estuary Flow is a real-time data integration platform built for both fast-moving developers and large-scale enterprises.  It combines change data capture, stream processing, and declarative configuration into a unified system that simplifies complex data movement.  With Flow, teams can build reliable, low-latency pipelines across systems – without the overhead of managing data infrastructure.  

As a senior backend engineer, you’ll work on high-impact, technically challenging projects – from performance-critical stream processing to scaling our infrastructure and evolving our developer experience.  This role will be part of our integrations team but there is room to rotate and contribute wherever your skills have the most impact.  

You’ll join a high-trust, high-impact team, and help shape core parts of our backend — from system architecture and performance optimization to enabling developers to build and deploy integrations quickly and reliably.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, deploy, test, and maintain substantial projects primarily written in Python.
  
• Lead technical initiatives around distributed systems, fault tolerance, and performance optimization
  
• Help shape our connector framework and build the tools that allow data to flow in real time from hundreds of APIs and databases
  
• Contribute to architectural decisions that improve scalability, maintainability, and developer experience
  
• Work closely with founders, product leadership, and other engineers to scope and deliver meaningful product improvements
  
• Write production-grade code, participate in code reviews, and mentor teammates
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of industry experience in backend software development, ideally working with distributed systems, stream processing, or real-time infrastructure
  
• Proficiency in Go and Python is preferred, with a willingness to learn new technologies.  Experience with Rust is a plus!
  
• Comfort building complex systems with a focus on performance and correctness
  
• Interest in developer experience and building tools that make engineers more effective
  
• Clear communication skills and a track record of successful cross-functional collaboration
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  

Bonus Points For

• Experience with change data capture (CDC), event streaming, or data integration tools (e.g., Airbyte, Fivetran, Debezium)
  
• Contributions to open source projects, especially in the data ecosystem
  
• Background working in early-stage startups or fast-moving engineering teams
  
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, AWS)
  

Why Estuary?

Estuary is VC-backed and led by experienced, repeat founders. We're a small but growing team that values ownership, fast iteration, and helping each other level up.

We offer:

• Competitive compensation, equity, and full benefits
  
• Flexible remote work (with hybrid options in NYC)
  
• A strong engineering culture with low ego and high autonomy
  
• Quarterly team offsites in fun locations like Miami, Austin, Boulder, and New Orleans

Backend Engineer

Estuary is seeking an enthusiastic and talented Software Engineer to join our dynamic team and contribute to the development of our cutting-edge data integration platform.

This role is focused on extending our capability to create connectors to various systems.  The integration team develops connectors which move data in real-time between a multitude of sources and destinations and we’re looking for an engineer to help us efficiently scale the process of creating them by enhancing systems and frameworks to make connector development easier.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, deploy, test, and maintain substantial projects primarily written in Python.
  
• Develop data integration connectors for capturing data from various external APIs, becoming a subject matter expert in extracting data from these systems.
  
• Identify common patterns used in data extraction from APIs and build abstractions to streamline connector development.
  
• Participate in designing and developing large-scale distributed systems for seamless data exchange.
  
• Write code, participate in reviews, troubleshoot, and debug technical issues.
  
• Stay updated on current technologies and data processing advancements.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience or equivalent proficiency gained through internships, coursework, or personal projects.
  
• Proficiency in Python is preferred, with a willingness to learn new technologies.
  
• Understanding of software development principles, debugging, and version control.
  
• Interest in data integration principles and real-time data processing.
  
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
  
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
  
• Bonus: Exposure to distributed systems and cloud environments, involvement in open-source communities, or experience in startup environments.

About the Role

Estuary is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help scale and secure the infrastructure that powers our real-time data platform.  You’ll join a small, high-impact team focused on improving the reliability, observability, and performance of mission-critical systems that support our customers’ data pipelines.

This is a foundational engineering role responsible for both operational excellence and long-term infrastructure strategy.  You’ll work closely with our backend and platform teams to automate deployments, improve system resilience, and manage the infrastructure lifecycle across cloud environments.

As the primary owner of our incident response process, you’ll play a key role in leading response efforts, conducting post-mortems, and driving improvements in how we detect, triage, and recover from incidents.

This role is ideal for someone who’s passionate about building highly available distributed systems, streamlining developer workflows, and embedding reliability into every part of the software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage infrastructure systems that enable high availability, observability, and security for our real-time data platform.
  
• Drive incident response efforts and postmortems, helping the team learn from failures and continuously improve.
  
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish and enforce operational best practices in CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and testing.
  
• Build tools and automation that reduce toil and empower developers to operate services confidently.
  
• Lead reliability-focused projects that span the entire stack—from low-level Linux infrastructure to application-level performance and observability
  
• Support a fast-paced, production environment by participating in an on-call rotation and providing guidance on scaling, cost-efficiency, and system health.
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused backend engineering.
  
• Experience managing infrastructure across Azure, GCP, and AWS
  
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, including managing stateful workloads and deploying production systems at scale.
  
• Proficiency with Pulumi and infrastructure-as-code practices; strong understanding of how to design, manage, and version cloud infrastructure.
  
• Strong Linux fundamentals and familiarity with core operating system concepts (e.g., networking, file systems, system performance).
  
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
  
• Deep understanding of monitoring and observability practices (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
  
• Experience improving operational maturity through automation, alerting hygiene, and incident response processes.
  
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset for working cross-functionally with product, platform, and engineering teams.
  
• Bonus: Experience with high-throughput data systems, stream processing, or managing stateful services in containerized environments.
  

Who You Are
You’re an infrastructure-minded engineer who sees reliability as a shared responsibility. 

You’re at your best when helping others move fast without breaking things—and you don’t mind jumping into the weeds when things do break. 

You thrive in ambiguity, think in systems, and always look for ways to make complex operations simpler.

Why Estuary?

• Collaborative, ambitious, high-performing team that’s passionate about data and pushing the envelope in technology.
  
• Early-stage startup: your limit is your imagination, not your job description.
  
• Remote-first culture with autonomy: work flexibly from anywhere.
  
• Quarterly offsite meetings in fun locations like Miami, Boulder, and Austin.  Getting to know each other as a team is crucial to our success!
  
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.

If you’re excited to build infrastructure that enables real-time data movement at scale, we’d love to hear from you!