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About the Role

Airtable is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Performance & Architecture (P&A) team, which is responsible for the core backend of every Airtable base. This role is pivotal in ensuring Airtable's speed and reliability at scale, with a current initiative to rewrite the in-memory database in Rust to support dramatically higher scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of high-functioning systems engineers responsible for the core backend of every Airtable base.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers in pre- and post-sales contexts to address performance or scale challenges and assist in landing major deals.
• Partner closely with senior and staff ICs on technical decisions for backend product initiatives.
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive technical decisions and initiatives, ensuring high-quality and sustainable product development.
• Nurture a team of passionate engineers, multiplying the impact of senior engineers and coaching early-career engineers.
• Drive operational excellence and implement scalable, productive processes while maintaining agility.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as an engineer (previously in a staff or TL-level IC position) AND 4+ years as a manager, or a similar combination.
• Systems background with a genuine interest in improving product performance and end-user experience.
• Direct experience working with enterprise customers or large, third-party partners, including holding challenging technical conversations.
• Strong experience working closely with Product Managers to define products, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption.
• Experience navigating and reasoning about large systems.
• Strong operational instinct and experience leading teams through incidents and on-call.
• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, and growing and mentoring engineers.
• Experience managing, organizing, and prioritizing multiple projects and work streams.
• Deep appreciation for understanding the Airtable product end to end.

Skills

• Systems engineering
• Backend development
• Performance optimization
• Scalability
• Customer engagement
• Technical leadership
• Product management
• Incident management
• On-call rotation
• Mentoring engineers

Location

• San Francisco

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Manager
• Staff IC

Salary/Compensations

• $281,000—$365,700 USD

Benefits

• Restricted stock units
• Incentive compensation
• Comprehensive benefit offerings

About the Company

• 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.
• Airtable is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 companies to power their mission-critical initiatives.
• Enterprise customers leverage Airtable to build sophisticated apps, and orchestrate deep, end-to-end workflows.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• VEVRAA-Federal Contractor
• Airtable is committed to participating in the interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants.