Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Airtable

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 infrastructure 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: The Asynchronous Serving team is scaling critical systems used by Airtable’s most essential and up-and-coming product features, especially AI features. Upcoming projects include refactoring our background task queue to track its tasks in DynamoDB, adding quality of service to the job queue, and revamping a streaming service to handle 10x scale while being more resilient. * 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 * 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. Join us if you’re passionate about creating high-leverage solutions that enable engineers to deliver features quickly, reliably, and at scale. * 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. Some the upcoming work in this team's charter include supporting improved performance in our secondary regions (like EU), bolstering our rate limiting and admission control infrastructure, and creating a consolidated and unified stateless route execution platform. We are looking for software engineers experienced in areas of API gateway (Envoy/Nginx/Pingora), edge networking like CDN/WAF, and stateless request serving platforms. Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time: * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based remotely in the greater Seattle area 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 4-8 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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.  VEVRAA-Federal Contractor If you have a medical condition, disability, or religious belief/practice which inhibits your ability to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please complete our Accommodations Request Form and let us know how we may assist you. Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: $187,000—$260,000 USD Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Airtable’s collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here. For applicants that live in or have a link to Australia, please see this Privacy Collection Statement for details regarding Airtable's collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process. 🔒 Stay Safe from Job Scams All official Airtable communication will come from an @airtable.com email address. We will never ask you to share sensitive information or purchase equipment during the hiring process. If in doubt, contact us at hr@airtable.com. Learn more about avoiding job scams here.

Airtable

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: The Asynchronous Serving team is scaling critical systems used by Airtable’s most essential and up-and-coming product features, especially AI features. Upcoming projects include refactoring our background task queue to track its tasks in DynamoDB, adding quality of service to the job queue, and revamping a streaming service to handle 10x scale while being more resilient. * 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 * 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. Some the upcoming work in this team's charter include supporting improved performance in our secondary regions (like EU), bolstering our rate limiting and admission control infrastructure, and creating a consolidated and unified stateless route execution platform. We are looking for software engineers experienced in areas of API gateway (Envoy/Nginx/Pingora), edge networking like CDN/WAF, and stateless request serving platforms. Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time: * Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration * Based remotely in the greater Seattle area 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 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 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 or New York City for this role. 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.  VEVRAA-Federal Contractor If you have a medical condition, disability, or religious belief/practice which inhibits your ability to participate in any part of the application or interview process, please complete our Accommodations Request Form and let us know how we may assist you. Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: $196,000—$339,900 USD Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Airtable’s collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here. For applicants that live in or have a link to Australia, please see this Privacy Collection Statement for details regarding Airtable's collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process. 🔒 Stay Safe from Job Scams All official Airtable communication will come from an @airtable.com email address. We will never ask you to share sensitive information or purchase equipment during the hiring process. If in doubt, contact us at hr@airtable.com. Learn more about avoiding job scams here.

Airtable

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. At Airtable, we're passionate about democratizing software creation — empowering anyone to build powerful, flexible tools without writing code. With our shift to an AI-native platform, customers can now generate full apps and deploy AI agents directly into their workflows. Data engineering plays a critical role in this evolution by delivering the insights our teams rely on to improve user experience, measure agent impact, and understand how the business is performing at scale. As a Software Engineer, Data at Airtable, you'll make an enormous contribution to our data engineering efforts. You'll design and own mission-critical data pipelines to enable decision-making, partner with company leaders to create scalable data solutions, and launch innovative alerting and visualization solutions. THE TEAM Our team is embedded in how Airtable understands itself as a business, working closely with Data Science and Analytics. What's unusual here: the platform you're instrumenting is the same one your customers use every day. When Airtable ships a new AI agent capability, you're among the first to wire it up, measure its adoption, and influence what gets built next. Product & AI Data Infrastructure This team builds and owns the foundational data pipelines that power product analytics across Airtable. As Airtable shifts to an AI-native platform, our work increasingly involves instrumenting and measuring AI product usage, building event pipelines for AI agents, surfacing AI-native adoption metrics in core business tables, and developing AI-powered data discovery tooling, including vector search over our catalog metadata. We partner closely with product analytics, product engineering, and data infrastructure to turn business questions into well-modeled, trustworthy data. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Work across our engineering organization and stakeholders from data science, growth, sales, marketing, and product to understand the data needs of the business and produce pipelines, data marts, and other solutions that enable better decision-making. * Design and maintain our foundational business tables in order to simplify analysis and reporting across the entire company, including AI usage metrics surfaced to executive stakeholders. * Use AI tools as a daily part of how you work, from LLM-assisted pipeline development and debugging to exploring our catalog through AI-powered discovery, and bring a curiosity for where this tooling is heading next. * Build and enforce a pattern language across our data stack, ensuring pipelines and tables are consistent, accurate, and well-understood. * Continue to improve the performance and reliability of our data warehouse. * Partner with data scientists, analytics engineers, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business questions into well-scoped data solutions. WHO YOU ARE * You have 3-8+ years of professional experience designing, creating, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, preferably in Airflow. * You've wrangled enough data to understand how often the complex systems that produce it can go wrong, and you build with that in mind. * You are proficient in at least one programming language (preferably Python) and are willing to pick up others as the work demands. * You are highly effective with SQL and understand how to write and tune complex queries. * You're genuinely curious about how AI is reshaping data engineering and you're actively experimenting, not just watching from the sidelines. Whether that's using LLMs to write and debug pipelines faster, thinking through how to model agent behavior as data, or exploring what smarter data discovery could look like, you bring enthusiasm for figuring it out. * You're passionate and thoughtful about building systems that enhance human understanding. * You communicate with clarity and precision in written form and have experience conveying findings through graphs and visualizations.   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: $179,500—$221,500 USD For all other work locations (including remote), the base salary range for this role is: $162,000—$199,800 USD Please see our Privacy Notice for details regarding Airtable’s collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking here. For applicants that live in or have a link to Australia, please see this Privacy Collection Statement for details regarding Airtable's collection and use of personal data relating to the application and recruitment process. 🔒 Stay Safe from Job Scams All official Airtable communication will come from an @airtable.com email address. We will never ask you to share sensitive information or purchase equipment during the hiring process. If in doubt, contact us at hr@airtable.com. Learn more about avoiding job scams here.