Estuary careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Estuary has raised $24 million across two disclosed rounds. FirstMark Capital's Matt Turck invested $7 million in 2021, and on October 21, 2025 the company announced a $17M Series A led by M13 with participation from FirstMark and Operator Partners, positioning the raise around powering enterprise AI with right-time data movement.

Estuary builds Flow, a platform for what it calls right-time data: everything from sub-second change data capture (CDC) replication to terabyte-scale batch OLAP flows, unified in one managed system with hundreds of source and destination connectors. It is open source and developer-first, with a streaming runtime and control plane built on Gazette, the pub-sub framework its founders created at their previous company, where it handled billions of daily ad-tech events at 7GB per second inside LiveRamp.

The company was founded in 2019 by David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger, the duo behind Arbor, which LiveRamp acquired in 2016. Estuary launched its SaaS product in 2023, and positions itself for the AI era: pipelines that are dependable, cost-predictable and AI-ready, with fine-grained control over latency, cost and deployment. It is headquartered in New York City with a second office in Columbus, Ohio, and a remote-first team.

David Yaffe, Co-founder and CEO. Co-founded and led Arbor, described as the first marketplace for people-based data, which LiveRamp acquired in 2016, after which he served as COO of LiveRamp, per Estuary's site. Earlier he was head of product for DoubleClick Bid Manager and worked on Invite Media.

Johnny Graettinger, Co-founder and CTO. Co-founded Arbor with Yaffe in 2014, where he created Gazette, the open source streaming framework that grew to handle billions of daily events at LiveRamp and now underpins Estuary Flow. At Estuary he stays hands-on in architecture and the company's agent tooling.

This is an early, post-Series A team where the job descriptions tell you plainly what you are signing up for: your limit is your imagination, not your job description. The Head of Engineering role reports into the leadership team as a partner to the founder CTO, and the company is explicit that headcount is not its primary lever; it prefers strong tooling, clear ownership and a high hiring bar, adding people only when the work demands it.

Published benefits include 100 percent employee coverage on healthcare, a 401(k), competitive equity, and unlimited vacation. The team is remote-first with autonomy to work flexibly from anywhere (in practice roles are US-based), with quarterly offsites in places like Miami, Boulder and Austin.

Estuary describes a collaborative, ambitious, high-performing team that is passionate about data, and its postings do not sugarcoat the pace: one asks for people deeply committed to building at a fast-paced startup, far beyond a typical 9 to 5 job. Engineering is organized into compact teams with capable leads who own real scope, shipping a product customers depend on daily.

The company says it values curiosity, clear communication and a willingness to learn, and gives bonus points for experience with CDC tools, open source contributions and fast-paced startups. Co-founder and CTO Johnny Graettinger stays deep in architecture and long-range technical bets, and is publicly active in building out Estuary's agent and MCP tooling.

There is no ATS or hosted job board: openings are listed in the careers section of https://estuary.dev/about/ and applications go by email to careers@estuary.dev with your resume. As of October 2026 the open roles are Head of Engineering (Remote US, Director level, reporting to the CTO), Product Manager, Customer Success Manager (the first CS hire), Technical Product Marketing Manager, Senior Growth Marketing Manager for content and video, Senior Compliance Engineer (GDPR and PCI DSS ownership), Senior Systems Engineer (Capture and Materializations), Solutions Engineer (New York, hybrid), Account Executive and a project-based Technical Writer.

Hiring is US-based: postings are marked Remote US or New York / Hybrid. Estuary does not publish salary bands; sales compensation is described as base plus commission plus equity, and other roles as competitive salary, equity and benefits. No interview process is published.