Software Engineer, Traffic Engineering (2+ YOE)

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San Francisco, CA
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185K-270K Annually
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The Role

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.

We are looking for founding members of our Traffic Engineering team. We are forming a Traffic Infrastructure team to ensure that traffic across Airtable's network and routing infrastructure is managed in a reliable, flexible, and secure manner. We are looking for software engineers experience in shipping code in the area of network routing, network security, and traffic engineering.

Airtable runs AWS infrastructure built on k8s that spans the globe. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

Learn more about our Engineering team and values here.

What you'll do
  • Serve as a founding engineer on a 3-person (plus plans to grow) Traffic Infrastructure software team.
  • Assist in developing the vision and identifying high-impact early projects, and delivering your projects.
  • Improve Airtable’s resilience to hardware issues (eg. network partitions, AZ loss, region loss, database failure), traffic spikes,  and inefficient business logic.
  • Evolve key foundations of Airtable’s infrastructure like RPC, service mesh, interprocess authentication, load balancing, route definitions, global traffic routing, and failure recovery.
Who you are
  • 2+ years in Software Engineering
  • Experience with service mesh, traffic engineering, and/or cloud networking preferred
  • Experience working on high-scale, low-latency systems with better than 99.9% uptime SLOs preferred
  • Deep experience with AWS and/or k8s preferred

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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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:
$185,000$270,000 USD

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Austin, TX
900 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

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Airtable's mission is to democratize software creation. We believe that software stands to be the single most impactful way anyone can bring their ideas to life, yet that few people can actually access it as a creative medium. Airtable enables everyone to experience the power of creating, not just using, software.

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