Description
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.
Airtable's infrastructure is evolving to meet the needs of our fast-growing engineering org. We currently have openings on:
- Base Infrastructure: The Base Infrastructure team owns the system that powers the core of Airtable's product--serving Airtable bases. We are investing in the foundations of our homegrown in-memory database. Key projects include building replication to support zero downtime failovers, optimising performance and memory usage, and vertical scaling.
- Compute: The compute pod builds and manages our Kubernetes-based platform that supports every service at Airtable, including all new AI services such as vector databases, AI evals store, and document extraction and understanding services. We have a lot of exciting foundational work in our roadmap, such as overhauling our network stack and service discovery, to simplify service setup and strengthen security, region level disaster recovery, and bringing up compute platform from 0->1 in a new region, building custom Kubernetes operators for reliably managing some of our most critical workloads.
- Data Infrastructure: The Data Infrastructure team's mission is to enable data-driven decision making at Airtable by providing reliable, self-service, high-performance analytics infrastructure. We use technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, and Apache Flink to process vast quantities of data in our data warehouse. This infrastructure is used by Airtable's data engineers and analysts, as well as product developers building features powered by business data. The team is focused on scaling to petabyte volume, enabling sub-second streaming, tightening data governance, and delivering cost-efficient ML-ready datasets to power Airtable's native AI products with fresh, high-quality signals.
- Developer Platform: The Developer Platform team sits at the intersection of all engineering at Airtable, focusing on building the internal tooling, frameworks, and CI/CD systems that power our product teams. We strive to streamline developer workflows,from build and test cycles to production deployments,and foster a best-in-class developer experience.
- Storage: The Storage team's mission is to accelerate product development at Airtable by providing scalable, reliable, and easy-to-use storage abstractions. We use RDS MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, and TiDB. We're looking for folks interested in distributed systems and databases who are excited to work on business-critical, petabyte-scale storage systems.
- Traffic: We are looking for founding members of our Traffic Engineering team. We recently formed a Traffic Infrastructure team to ensure that traffic across Airtable's network and routing infrastructure is managed in a reliable, flexible, and secure manner. This will support improved performance in our secondary regions (EU and Australia) as well as other customer-driven projects.
You will own all aspects of building, running, and improving these systems, from the underlying infrastructure all the way to the developer-facing code abstractions.
You will proactively identify and lead significant improvements to Airtable's infrastructure, working across teams and product areas to maximise business and engineering impact. You will work on systems-level problems in a complex design space where scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security really matter. You will build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions that will be used by Airtable's engineers for years to come. You will take full ownership of components of Airtable's infrastructure, including responsibility for reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability of our production environment.
You have 2-8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment. You have 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. 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.