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Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

AirtableSan Francisco, California, USA
9 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500000 organizations including 80% of the Fortune 100 rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

The Observability team at Airtable ensures that our engineers have the tools they need to measure performance monitor reliability and debug issues in real time. Our mission is to provide actionable insights into errors and crashes fueling a better and more reliable experience for millions of users. We build logging metrics and tracing systems that are leveraged by nearly every engineering team at Airtable.

We also work on LLM observability for AI-powered features. We provide visibility into prompts model calls and RAG components with a focus on latency reliability cost safety signals and evaluation quality.

If youre excited about building resilient systems at scale empowering engineers with best-in-class observability and shaping the future of Airtables infrastructure wed love to hear from you.

What Youll Do :

Architect and scale core observability

  • Lead the design and evolution of logging metrics and tracing pipelines to handle massive data volumes
  • Evaluate and integrate new technologies (e.g. OpenTelemetry ClickHouse ELK stack) that enhance Airtables observability posture
  • Guide and mentor a growing team of infrastructure engineers; share best practices in distributed tracing monitoring and logging
  • Define and uphold coding standards and operational excellence across the org
  • Partner with Deploy Infrastructure Service Orchestration and Product teams to embed observability throughout the development lifecycle
  • Align infrastructure decisions with business goals to detect issues before they impact customers
  • 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 advanced monitoring dashboards and next-gen logging pipelines
  • Continuously explore emerging trends to keep Airtables monitoring capabilities at the cutting edge

Extend observability to LLM and AI features

  • Instrument prompts model calls and RAG pipelines to capture latency reliability cost and safety signals
  • Design online and offline evaluation loops for LLM quality including canary analysis and drift detection
  • Build dashboards and alerts for token usage error rates guardrail triggers and model performance; connect these signals to tracing for prompt lineage
  • Partner with AI and Product teams to define SLOs for AI features and close the feedback loop from incidents to model and prompt improvements

    • Who You Are :

  • 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 Airtables engineering organization through reliable intuitive observability tools.
  • Commitment to measuring success by the velocity and confidence with which product teams can ship.

    • Why Join Us

  • High Impact

    • Lead the modernization of Airtables observability stack influencing how every engineer monitors and debugs mission-critical systems.

  • Room to Innovate

    • Define and execute on a multi-year roadmap introducing advanced logging tracing and metrics solutions that shape the entire developer experience.

  • Career Growth

    • As a Sr Software engineer youll drive major projects across engineering organization to build platform and services for solving observability problems

  • Collaborative Culture

    • Work alongside talented platform engineers product teams and leadership to make data-driven decisions and ensure platform reliability.

    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. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .

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    Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location relevant skills and experience.

    Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits restricted stock units and may include incentive compensation. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings please check out Life at Airtable .

    For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area Seattle New York City and Los Angeles the base salary range for this role is :

    $196000 - $270000 USD

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    Required Experience :

    Senior IC

    Key Skills

    Spring,.NET,C / C++,Go,React,OOP,C#,AWS,Data Structures,Software Development,Java,Distributed Systems

    Employment Type : Full Time

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

    Monthly Salary Salary : 196000 - 270000

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