<aside> 💡 Airbyte’s operational principles that guide day-to-day actions and bring our values to life.

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Freedom & Responsibility

Freedom & Responsibility are separate concepts, paired together to encourage creativity and ingenuity in the spirit of what is best for Airbyte.

With Freedom, we believe strongly in autonomy and empowering our team. Every person can and should digest context, seek opinions, and ultimately make their own decisions. Do what’s best for yourself, the company, and our users.

With Responsibility, we believe strongly in self-discipline and critical thinking. We constantly ask ourselves: Is this what’s best for Airbyte? When answering that question, be thoughtful, gather feedback, freely make decisions, and then take accountability for your actions, whether they are good or bad.

With Freedom & Responsibility, we encourage everyone to make your own decisions, but remember that you are ultimately responsible for the result.

In practice:

• We work hard and take healthy amounts of time off. While there is no process or limits to time off, be responsible and respectful by having a plan and informing your team in advance.
• Our team is distributed around the world with our HQ office in San Francisco. We expect everyone to align their time zone and work setups with what is best for Airbyte, their teams and their projects.
• We travel with purpose. We encourage face-to-face time because it enables us to create relationships more easily and build trust but travel is expensive. Spend every Airbyte dollar as if it were your own.

There are a few exceptions to Freedom & Responsibility:

• We have no tolerance for harassment.
• We are strict on ethical and safety issues.
• We have strict control over our team’s compensation information.
• We organize three in-person company meetups every year. You can travel more with purpose, but we expect you to attend, at minimum, the company meetups to build relationships with the rest of the team.

Freedom & Responsibility

Operate with Context

To maximize individual impact, it’s essential for everyone to possess a complete understanding of the context. At Airbyte, we’ve purposefully structured our processes to be asynchronous, allowing us to disseminate context to our distributed team and create opportunities for everyone to contribute, provide feedback and share opinions.

In practice:

• We document and share our strategy. With this context, everyone should execute their projects without needing explicit approval for every task. In turn, everyone is expected to keep the team informed of their work, and to be a source for learnings and new ideas.