Software Engineer, Infrastructure (4-8 YOE)

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

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What it asks for · 5

• 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.

What the job covers

• 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.

Degree language

• You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• infrastructure9×
• platform7×
• service7×
• area6×
• developer5×
• systems5×
• building4×
• critical4×
• engineering4×
• engineers4×
• experience4×
• product4×
• traffic4×
• build3×
• compute3×
• features3×

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