Software Engineer, Scaling & Resiliency (6+ years of experience)

Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. One of the most rewarding parts of building a toolkit is seeing the incredible things your users create with it. We’ve seen our largest and most sophisticated customers use Airtable to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing and 3D printing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth.

The flexible nature of Airtable’s product translates to many unique infrastructure engineering challenges. We are building a relational database engine that supports real-time synchronization between different users, revision history, a powerful formulas engine, workflows and automations, snapshotting, and more. We are looking for talented backend engineers to help us evolve our database engine to meet our customers’ most critical needs around performance and scale.

In addition, Airtable’s infrastructure is also evolving to meet the needs of our fast growing engineering org. We are looking for backend engineers to help improve critical infrastructure for storage, cache, services, deployment and orchestration, with a focus on building systems that have a great developer experience and will scale as we grow. We are hiring staff/lead engineers across the following teams:

Scaling & Resiliency 

Scaling & Resiliency Team drives architectural evolution at Airtable. We are rewriting core abstractions and building new ones from scratch to ensure that Airtable’s backend can scale the next order of magnitude and handle errors and load spikes gracefully.

Currently, the team is rewriting core parts of Airtable’s infrastructure to remove single points of failure. We are also writing and rolling out a new system that allows product engineers to efficiently consume a stream of base content changes–we started this project in early 2022 and already have five feature teams building on it.

Learn more about our Engineering team and values here.

• Lead a team of 8 (and growing!).
• Design, develop, maintain and lead the implementation of key infrastructure
• Delegate work to other engineers, support them, and mentor them
• Envision and plan the team’s technical strategy
• Partner with product (backend) and infrastructure engineering teams
• Work with Node.JS, Typescript, MySQL, and AWS services

• You’re a backend engineer who has lead teams & projects from end-to-end, with 6+ years of experience who is willing to learn new technologies and apply them in a fast changing environment
• You have experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service oriented architectures, and backend performance measurement and optimization
• 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 strong experience working on backend/infrastructure systems. You understand how distributed systems fail and how to design them for robustness. 

• We have your medical, dental, and vision insurance 100% covered (and your dependents covered at 80%)
• High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution
• Complimentary One Medical membership for individuals and dependents
• Monthly “Lifestyle Wallet” to use for benefits like personal fitness (e.g., gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc.) to pet care to nutrition coaching, and more.  
• Complimentary mental health support via Modern Health 
• Family planning support via Carrot (fertility, adoption, and surrogacy)
• Flexible and generous time off and sick time benefits
• 16 weeks of parental leave
• Annual Learning & Development wallet to support your career development
• Emergency backup care for dependents 
• Access to financial planning and legal support
• Supplemental reimbursement for Gender Affirmation procedures and services
• Access to pre-tax Transportation & Commuter Benefits