Airtable's infrastructure is evolving to meet the needs of our fast growing engineering org. We are looking for backend engineers to join our team to help improve critical product infrastructure, with a focus on building systems that have a great developer experience and will scale as we grow.
Requirements
- experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure.
- experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure.
- You derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions in order to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand.
- We use technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, and Apache Flink to process vast quantities of data in our data warehouse.
- We use RDS MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and TiDB.
- excited to work on business-critical, petabyte-scale storage systems.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify and lead significant improvements to Airtable's infrastructure, working across teams and product areas to maximize business and engineering impact.
- Work on systems-level problems in a complex design space where scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security really matter.
- Build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions that will be used by Airtable's engineers for years to come.
- Take full ownership of components of Airtable's infrastructure, including responsibility for reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability of our production environment.
- building replication to support zero downtime failovers, optimizing performance and memory usage, and vertical scaling.
- enable data-driven decision making at Airtable by providing reliable, self-service, high-performance analytics infrastructure.
- providing scalable, reliable, and easy-to-use storage abstractions.
Other
- You have at least 8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment.
- Please note this is not an early career position.
- You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field.
- You are currently based or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City for this role.
- while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are looking to hire candidates who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area (depending on team match) who are open to coming into the office at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration.
