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.

Reports to: CTO
Titles: We’re flexible on leveling between Head of Engineering and Director of Engineering, commensurate with scope and experience.

Why this role exists

We’re a Series-A startup bridging the streaming/batch chasm to offer a unified platform for right-time data replication and transform, with ergonomics that dramatically improve the accessibility of maintaining production-grade data flows. Our hands‑on CTO focuses on 1–2 critical technical bets at a time. You will run the day‑to‑day of engineering: people, delivery, and operations –  so we ship the right things with exceptional reliability.

What you’ll do

• Optimize project delivery. Develop processes and team loops that wrangle the competing needs of customers, partners, marketing, operations, and long-term product vision into a focused and achievable technical pipeline.
  
• Manage and nurture. Grow Estuary’s engineering management culture. Start with ~10 direct reports and tap your experience to layer the right structures and processes at the right time, as Estuary incrementally transitions from a flat org chart to increasingly formalized teams. Improve 360 review process, feedback, and leveling; coach effective 1:1s and be a mentor of mentors.
  
• Partner tightly. Work with CTO/CEO co‑founders (product function), as well as compliance, marketing, sales, and support leads to develop our shared roadmap, refine scope into clear engineering commitments, set expectations, sequence work, and surface risks. Jump on critical customer escalations with judgment.
  
• Operational excellence. Manage on‑call rotations, direct incident response, establish postmortems and ensure follow-through on findings. Actively improve quality standards and risk minimization. Champion Estuary’s “fix bugs first” culture.
  
• Hiring engine. Refine the engineering candidate lifecycle, including top-of-funnel sourcing, early screening and touch points, interview structure, scoring, and onboarding. Work with in-house recruiting to achieve sustainable growth of exceptional hires.
  
• Be a credible player‑coach. You’ll read design docs, ask the right questions, build prototypes, and contribute code occasionally to stay on top of Estuary’s technology stack and pinch hit—this is not a pure people‑ops role.
  
• Advocate Compliance. Partner with our existing compliance lead (SOC 2, HIPAA; HITRUST and PCI DSS exploration) to ensure engineering practices and evidence are audit‑ready.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in platform engineering with 3–5+ years leading teams; experience managing 8–20 engineers across 2–4 pods.
• Proven ability to lead, introduce structure, and nurture engineering excellence across multiple teams in a complex domain, preferably B2B.
• Evidence of hiring and leveling senior ICs and tech leads; manager‑of‑managers experience a plus.
• Ability to communicate at all levels, and discuss nuanced technical concepts with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading and organizing incident response in high stakes settings.
• Familiarity and interest in techniques for building data-intensive applications and platforms, counter-balanced with a bias towards solutions that are as simple as possible.
• Comfortable partnering with a highly hands‑on CTO; strong judgment about when to pull them in vs. shield them.

How we work

• High autonomy; engineers own the full feature lifecycle and often engage directly with users.
• Remote‑first, Slack‑centric, async‑friendly with VCs as needed
• Global team with a skew towards east-coast working hours

Compensation & leveling

Market‑competitive cash + equity; exact title (Head vs. Director) based on experience and scope. Future scope and title growth are based on impact, not tenure.

Fullstack Engineer – UI Team

We’re looking for a Fullstack Engineer to join our UI team.  This is a pivotal role where you’ll serve as the primary backend/fullstack engineer on the team, ensuring we can scale our ability to deliver new features and improve the user experience.  

You’ll split your time between backend work in Rust and frontend development in React/TypeScript, building the foundation that makes our product intuitive and powerful for customers.

What you’ll do

• Primary engineer focused on backend development for the UI team, designing, building and maintaining features in our Rust-based backend.
  
• Help lead the migration from PostgREST endpoints to GraphQL and convert existing UI components to consume the new APIs.
  
• Debug, optimize, and improve the performance of queries and data flows.
  
• Collaborate with frontend teammates to implement new features in our React/TypeScript dashboard application.
  
• Work across the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring/support.
  
• Partner closely with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing features end-to-end.

What we’re looking for

• 3+ years of fullstack engineering experience, ideally including work in startup or fast-moving environments.
  
• Proven experience splitting time across backend and frontend development, with ownership of features from start to finish.
  
• Strong proficiency in Rust or TypeScript/JavaScript (bonus if you have both).
  
• Some experience working with React and understanding the larger React ecosystem.
  
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and adapting quickly in a collaborative team setting.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with MUI and material design principles.
• Experience with Supabase/PostgREST.
• Experience with Zustand (or other global state providers).
• Basic knowledge of WASM 
• Basic knowledge of GraphQL
• Previous startup experience, especially in the data or cloud space.

Why Estuary?

We’re a small, fast-growing company in the pre-Series A stage, tackling complex data problems with ambitious solutions. At Estuary you’ll:

• Work closely with a talented team of engineers and founders.
  
• Contribute directly to a product that sits at the heart of real-time data movement.
  
• Enjoy company offsites in fun locations that mix strategy, collaboration, and team activities.
  
• Get the opportunity to grow your skills in both backend and frontend development while shaping the future of our UI.

What You'll Do

• Proactively identify and reach out to ideal customer profiles (ICPs) using a mix of outbound tactics.
  
• Educate prospects on Estuary.dev’s unique value proposition and qualify them for the next stage in the sales process.
  
• Collaborate with Account Executives and Marketing to strategize outreach and target accounts.
  
• Track and manage outreach activities and pipeline metrics in HubSpot.
  
• · Consistently achieve (and aim to exceed) monthly and quarterly meeting and opportunity quotas.

What You Bring

• 1–3 years of experience in a BDR or SDR role at a SaaS or data-focused company.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a focus on clarity and persuasion.
  
• Comfort with technical concepts related to data integration, ETL, or modern data platforms.
  
• A scrappy, self-starter mentality with a desire to grow into a sales or go-to-market leadership role.
  
• Familiarity with tools like HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Apollo, or Outreach.

Bonus Points If You:

• Have experience targeting data engineers or technical buyers.
  
• Previously worked in a fast-paced startup environment.
  
• Are familiar with open-source ecosystems or integration tools like Fivetran, Airbyte, or Kafka.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a rapidly growing company solving a big, technical problem.
  
• Collaborate with a world-class team of engineers and GTM leaders.
  
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
  
• Remote-first culture with flexible working hours.
  
• Opportunity to shape go-to-market strategy from the ground up.

Compensation: $70,000 – $90,000 + equity
Location: US-based, fully remote / remote-friendly

Why Estuary Is the Place to Be

Join us at a pivotal moment: we’re building the content engine to help define Estuary’s voice in the data/engineering world. As our Content Marketing Manager, you won’t just execute, you’ll invent. You’ll help us tell stories, shape narratives, and grow a community of advocates.

At Estuary, you’ll enjoy:

• Ownership & autonomy: define and scale the content function from the ground up
• Impact at scale: your work will directly touch brand, demand, product, and community
• A mission-driven, high-caliber team where curiosity, grit, and high standards win
• Transparent compensation, equity in the company, and benefits to support your whole life
• Flexibility: fully remote, asynchronous-friendly, occasional team offsites

Your Mission (What You’ll Own)

You’ll be the architect of how Estuary’s story gets told. Here’s how:

Strategy & Storytelling

• Develop and maintain a content strategy & editorial calendar aligned with positioning, GTM pillars, and roadmap priorities.
• Work with leadership to define content themes, pillars, and key message frameworks.
• Surface and translate technical differentiators, customer wins, and research insights into resonant narratives.

Creation & Production

• Write, edit, and manage high-quality content: blog posts, case studies, whitepapers, ebooks, email campaigns, landing pages, thought leadership, product collateral.
• Commission and manage external writer/agency partners, ensuring quality, tone, and deadlines
• Partner with product, engineering, sales, and customer success to co-create content, collate technical inputs, and iterate
• Ensure all content is strategically optimized for SEO, keywords, and search intent.

Distribution & Amplification

• Own content distribution and syndication strategy across web, newsletters, social, and partner channels
• Collaborate with demand gen & SEO leads to optimize content for discoverability and conversion.
• Build and manage relationships with media, influencers, analysts, community leaders, and partners to co-promote and syndicate content.
• Identify content repurposing opportunities (e.g., turning reports into webinars, podcasts, infographics)

Social & Community

• Lead Estuary’s social strategy (LinkedIn,  X/Twitter, YouTube, etc.) — ideate campaigns that spark conversation, awareness, and engagement
• Monitor performance metrics, run A/B tests, learn fast, optimize
• Engage directly with our community (forums, Slack, open source channels), encourage UGC, and spotlight voices.
• Manage and execute content publishing on key channels like LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and technical forums (e.g., Hacker News, Reddit).

Metrics & Growth

• Define KPIs and success metrics (e.g., pipeline influenced, MQLs from content, engagement growth, domain authority)
• Build dashboards and reporting to show impact and guide decisions.
• Conduct quarterly content retros and planning cycles — which themes resonated, where to double down.

What Success Looks Like (6–12 Months In)

• A robust, scalable content calendar with multiple content pillars driving new thought leadership
• Measurable growth in content-driven pipeline and lead velocity
• Increased domain authority, SEO traffic, and share of voice
• Expanded social presence (followers, engagement) and community momentum
• Strong cross-functional alignment such that content becomes a core driver of product launches, sales enablement, and customer retention

What We're Looking For

Must-haves / Required Experience

• 4–6+ years in B2B content marketing, ideally in enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure, developer tools, or technical domains
• Proven track record of turning complex technical topics into explicit, compelling content for multiple audiences (executive, technical, practitioner)
• Experience owning content distribution, social media, and amplification with measurable brand/pipeline impact
• Comfortable working across functions (product, engineering, sales, CS) and distilling technical input into narrative form
• Strong self-starter, hands-on, willing to roll up sleeves and scale systems
• Comfort with ambiguity and moving fast; ability to juggle strategy + execution
• Ideally, prior startup experience (you know how to do more with less)

Nice-to-haves / Differentiators

• Experience in the data/analytics/infrastructure space
• Experience building or growing a content team/function
• Podcast, video, or multimedia content experience
• Experience in open source or developer communities
• Analytics/SEO chops (e.g., proficiency with tools like Google Analytics, Ahrefs, SEMrush)

Reporting, Growth & Collaboration

• Reports to: Head of Marketing
• Works closely with: Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, Design, and Exec leadership
• Potential growth path: Lead content (and eventually a small team), content + comms lead, head of marketing

What You’ll Love (Perks & Culture)

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity
• Flexible work, unlimited PTO
• Remote-first, async culture
• In-person retreats/offsites
• Investment in your growth (conferences, training, tools)
• A team that values transparency, radical ownership, and learning from mistakes

We’re excited to see how you’ll help bring Estuary’s story to life.