Software Engineer, Airtable
Data Infrastructure
Mountain View, CA
2-5 days a week in office
Low code application development platform
Job no longer available
Low code application development platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Mountain View, CA
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To democratize software connection by giving teams all the tools they need not just to use, but create great software.
Role
Who you are
- You're passionate and thoughtful about building scalable systems
- You have professional experience working with modern data storage and processing technologies, and you've wrangled enough data to understand how often the complex systems that produce data can go wrong
- You can write clear, correct code in at least one programming language, and are willing to become effective in others as needed to get your job done
- You have 6+ years experience in software development
What the job involves
- Help architect, build, and scale our data platform, with an eye on security and privacy
- Work on the data collection and processing pipelines across the entire stack, from client-side event logging to ETL. Systems you'll touch may include data warehouses using MPP databases (e.g. RedShift), orchestration systems (e.g. Airflow), streaming data processors (e.g. Kinesis), and distributed data processing systems (e.g. Spark)
- Enable data products and data-driven decisions across the company by building and improving upon our data infrastructure. This includes making improvements to our experimentation system, scaling our data warehouse, enabling feature extraction, and serving large datasets
- Work closely with the rest of engineering, as well as other stakeholders from our growth, sales, marketing, and product teams, to understand the data needs of the business and produce systems that enable better product and growth decision-making
Our take
Airtable allows users to create and collaborate on spreadsheets and relational databases without having to write lines of SQL code. It's most often used for customer-relationship management, project management, workflow planning and inventory.
In this sense, the concept is similar to the likes of Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, but the fact that it functions as a database while remaining as easy to use as a spreadsheet is what sets it apart. So too does the fact that it can be used to build apps using Airtable’s own library of User Interface tools.
Whilst startups, including NocoDB, are setting out to challenge Airtable's industry-leading position, since launching in 2012, the business has grown pretty spectacularly, amassing an $11 billion valuation. The company also boasts an impressive (and evergrowing) list of customers using its cloud based platform, including Netflix, Expedia, Medium and Shopify.
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Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Dec 2021
$735m
SERIES F
Mar 2021
$270m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- We have your medical, dental, and vision insurance 100% covered (and your dependents covered at 80%)
- High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution
- Complimentary One Medical membership for individuals and dependents
- Monthly “Lifestyle Wallet” to use for benefits like personal fitness (e.g., gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc.) to pet care to nutrition coaching, and more
- Complimentary mental health support via Modern Health Family planning support (fertility, adoption, and surrogacy)
- Flexible and generous time off and sick time benefits
- 16 weeks of parental leave
- Annual Learning & Development wallet to support your career development
- Emergency backup care for dependents
- Access to financial planning and legal support
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Howie Liu
(CEO)Having studied at Duke University, they co-founded Etacts in February 2010, prior to working in Products at Salesforce. They left this position in February 2012 in order to co-found Airtable in June 2013.
Andrew Ofstad
(Co-founder)They studied at Duke University before spending a year at Accenture, and working as a Product Manager at Google for 3 years. They used this experience to co-found Airtable in June 2012 with Howie and Emmett.
Emmett Nicholas
(Co-founder)After a childhood in Washington state, they studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University. Prior to Airtable, was a founding engineer of Stack Overflow, which they helped scale to hundreds of millions of users.
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