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 a Technical Lead to found our Traffic Infrastructure 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 experienced leaders of infrastructure software teams.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.
What you'll do
- Serve as the hands-on technical leader of a 3-person (plus plans to grow) Traffic Infrastructure software team.
- Develop the vision, identify high-impact early projects, build consensus across the infrastructure org for your proposed architectural evolutions, and deliver your projects.
- Support the other engineers on your team and ensure high quality delivery.
- 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, and failure recovery.
Who you are
- 7+ years in Software Engineering
- 2+ years as the technical lead of a multi-person project or team
- 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
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