Airtable’s mission is to bring the power of computing and software development to everyone. We are developing a powerful and extensible platform that our customers can leverage to solve a variety of different problems and workflows. We’ve seen our most sophisticated customers use the product to run global processes across thousands of employees, coordinate precision manufacturing pipelines, and consolidate previously siloed mission-critical data into a single source of truth. The complexity of these use cases requires us to be extremely thoughtful about how we design and implement new functionality in the product and make sure it’s both easy to use and comprehend for our customers and maintainable for us.

As a Product Backend engineer at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to work with customers to deeply understand their needs and workflows. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across product management, design, research and data science to create innovative new features that enable our customers to do their best work. You will be responsible for owning and executing the end-to-end implementation of these new features that will contribute to making our toolkit even more powerful and successful.

We currently have openings on:

• Performance & Architecture Team: This team is responsible for expanding the volume of data that can be stored in an Airtable application. This work spans from pure data volume to request handling throughput and parallel user support within a single Airtable application. The team also partners with management to identify new strategic opportunities to enhance user experience by creating new backend infrastructure that can unlock new products. As part of this role, you will help coach other team members and improve overall team effectiveness.

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 at this level who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area who are open to coming into the office at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration.

What you'll do

• Design and build systems that dramatically increase the scalability and performance of all applications built on Airtable, to earn the trust of our customers through predictable, reliable, and thoughtful interactions.
• Work at the deep backend of the Airtable software stack within the Enterprise Product portion of the org, just above the Infrastructure org.
• Partner with product managers, designers, and data scientists to understand the needs of potential users and build a product that unlocks their potential.
• Work alongside and learn from a talented group of engineers with a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds.

Who you are

• You have 7+ years of industry experience with modern systems development, ideally database internals development.
• You are interested in programming in TypeScript and Rust.
• You are excited by a product-oriented backend role, i.e. not pure Infrastructure.
• You have a good understanding of modern web technologies and large-scale web application architecture.
• You have a background in computer science or a related field.
• You believe the best product is the one that helps users accomplish their goals while growing the business.
• You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right.
• You have strong convictions, weakly held and assume validation and iteration are a given to produce the best results.
• You show strong ownership instincts and sweat the details.
• You are currently based and/or will be based in 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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant. 

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