Software Engineer, Infrastructure (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.
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Software Engineer, Infrastructure (8+ YOE) at Airtable in Remote (United States). UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 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.
Day-to-day expectations
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- 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.
What a strong candidate brings
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- 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.
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