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Software Engineer, Observability at Airtable
AirtableSan Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Remote (Seattle, WA only)·1w ago
Mid LevelFull-timePythonJavaAWSKubernetesGoAI
Salary Range
$102,000 - $138,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for an Observability Engineer to join the Observability team at Airtable. This role focuses on building and scaling core observability systems to ensure our engineers have the tools they need to measure performance, monitor reliability, and debug issues in real time.
Key Responsibilities
- →Architect and scale core observability systems to handle massive data volumes
- →Evaluate and integrate new technologies like OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, and ELK stack
- →Guide and mentor a growing team of infrastructure engineers
- →Define and uphold coding standards and operational excellence
- →Partner with various teams to embed observability throughout the development lifecycle
- →Own end-to-end reliability for observability tools and establish SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
- →Optimize performance and cost of large-scale data pipelines and storage
- →Shape the observability roadmap, prioritizing initiatives like improved tracing coverage and advanced monitoring dashboards
- →Continuously explore emerging trends to keep Airtable’s monitoring capabilities at the cutting edge
Requirements
- ✓6+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years focused on observability or infrastructure at scale
- ✓Demonstrated success implementing and running production-grade logging, metrics, or tracing systems
- ✓Proficiency in distributed systems concepts, data streaming pipelines, and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- ✓Deep hands-on knowledge of tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, ELK Stack, Loki, or ClickHouse
- ✓Comfort with at least one programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java) to build and maintain observability tooling
- ✓Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating across multiple teams
- ✓Strong communication skills to effectively present technical trade-offs and architectural plans
- ✓Eagerness to own high-impact initiatives from design through production and maintenance
- ✓Proven ability to balance short-term fixes with long-term strategic vision
- ✓A passion for enabling all of Airtable’s engineering organization through reliable, intuitive observability tools
- ✓Commitment to measuring success by the velocity and confidence with which product teams can ship
