Database Reliability Engineer, Airtable
$165.4-216k
Low code application development platform
Job no longer available
Low code application development platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$165.4-216k
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 have 1+ years of experience operating high-scale production database clusters (MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB, Vitess, TiDB, etc).
- You are curious, driven, and thorough. Whether it's scripting bulletproof automation, testing scripts, writing recovery playbooks, or digging into logs to address an incident, you value thoroughly understanding the root cause of a problem, solving it, and solving it well
- You enjoy writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code. In some situations it’s the right decision to move fast and incur technical debt, but with the understanding that it needs to be paid back later
What the job involves
- As a DRE at Airtable, you will be entrusted with identifying and leading large projects to enhance our database infrastructure
- You will work closely with software engineers and site reliability engineers to execute these projects, with a particular focus on aspects like reliability, observability, and operational ease-of-use
- Some example projects include:
- Reducing database failover times through architectural and process improvements
- Developing a capacity planning process for our MySQL infrastructure, proactively reaching out to product developers to optimize and migrate workloads as needed
- Writing tools and automations to reduce manual effort spent on tasks like provisioning, user management, and database maintenance
- Rolling out a tool like gh-ost or pt-online-schema-change to perform online schema changes
- Creating a testing framework for validating large MySQL infrastructural changes with production-level load
- Evaluating next-generation distributed databases like Vitess, TiDB, CockroachDB, etc
- As a member of the Storage team, you will participate in an on-call rotation for our transactional storage systems
- DREs are exemplary incident responders: able to apply rigorous thinking and strong debugging skills to quickly remediate problems during high-pressure situations, and afterwards leading blameless postmortems to understand and address underlying root causes
- Finally, as one of the first DREs at Airtable, you will have the opportunity to influence the Storage team’s vision and strategy, and create and evangelize best practices, processes, and tooling related to our database infrastructure
- Own all aspects of the reliability, scalability, and performance of Airtable’s MySQL database infrastructure, using a data-driven approach (metrics, SLOs) to prioritize improvements
- Work with technologies like MySQL, RDS, Terraform, NodeJS, TypeScript, Datadog, ELK, and Sentry
- Partner with SWEs and SREs to identify and lead projects to enhance Airtable’s MySQL database infrastructure, working collaboratively to gather requirements, align stakeholders, and develop and execute project plans
- Build tools to automate operational processes, with a focus on reducing manual work and improving developer velocity
- Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain high-scale, mission-critical databases that are essential to Airtable
- Influence the vision, strategy, and culture of a rapidly growing team
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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