Software Engineer, Infrastructure (2-8 YOE) San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Agrisano Unternehmungen; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team as a Software Engineer, focusing on enhancing critical infrastructure at a leading no-code app platform. This role offers the chance to tackle complex systems-level challenges while collaborating across teams to drive impactful improvements. You'll work on projects that optimize performance, reliability, and scalability, all while fostering a developer-friendly environment. If you're passionate about building robust systems and eager to grow in a fast-paced setting, this opportunity is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to make significant contributions in a collaborative and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• 2-8 years of experience in infrastructure, databases, and distributed systems.
• Strong background in computer science and eagerness to learn new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Identify and lead improvements to Airtable’s infrastructure across teams.
• Build clean, reusable abstractions for long-term use by engineers.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Service-Oriented Architectures

Database Management

Scalability

Efficiency

Reliability

Security

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Spinnaker

RDS MySQL

DynamoDB

Redis

TiDB

Job description

Software Engineer, Infrastructure (2-8 YOE)

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

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.

We currently have openings on:

• Asynchronous Serving (SF and NYC):The Asynchronous Serving team is scaling critical systems used by Airtable’s most essential and up-and-coming product features. Upcoming projects include revamping the scheduler of our background job queue, adding quality of service to the job queue, and revamping a streaming service to handle 10x scale.
• Base Infrastructure (SF and NYC):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, optimizing performance and memory usage, and vertical scaling.
• Deploy Infrastructure (SF Hub only):The Deploy Infrastructure pod's mission is to empower Airtable product engineers to rapidly and safely iterate on their code via continuous deploys. We leverage systems including Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Terraform and home-built infrastructure to build a robust and fast deployment process and a powerful canary system.
• Observability (SF and NY Hub only):The Observability team's mission is to empower Airtable's engineering team with effective monitoring and debugging tools. We provide actionable insights into errors and crashes, and improve performance through enhanced visibility. You’ll build tools that are in-use by nearly every engineer at Airtable in our logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines.
• Service Orchestration (SF Hub Only):The compute pod’s charter is to make it easy for services to be built and operated in an easy and safe manner. This pod is responsible for building and operating our Kubernetes based platform, upon which all Airtable services run on. As a result, this team has high leverage in making a significant impact on the company across various dimensions: developer enablement, service reliability, and infrastructure cost. We're looking for experienced engineers who have built internal compute platforms before. We have an exciting roadmap filled with initiatives such as
  • Providing higher level primitives and abstractions than those offered by native Kubernetes, for building & deploying workloads in a way that's deeply integrated with the rest of Airtable's infrastructure
  • Bringing up compute stack in a new region in <1 week
  • Developing Kubernetes CRDs and operators to address some of Airtable's unique scalability challenges
• Storage (SF Hub Only):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. 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.
• Traffic (SF and NYC):The Traffic Team is adding foundational systems and abstractions to Airtable’s infrastructure to support our growing, multi-region service. Design and introduce systems like service mesh while evolving existing mechanisms for RPC, handling load spikes, and transient cloud failures!

Please note: 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.

What you'll do

• 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.

Who you are

• You have 2-8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment. Please note this is not a new grad position.
• 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.

Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances.

Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location, relevant skills, and experience.

Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable.

For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, the base salary range for this role is:

$148,100 - $221,500 USD

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