Airtable’s backend presents many unique challenges and opportunities for designing and architecting complex systems. Our purpose-built relational database engine supports realtime synchronization between different users, revision history, a type system, and an engine that supports formulas and dependencies/constraints.

As a backend engineer you'll contribute to the database engine and formula engine that power Airtable bases. Unlike single-purpose apps, we think of Airtable as a horizontal toolkit composed of intuitive building blocks that people can repurpose to create their own applications. Our product roadmap is filled with interesting enhancements and additions to this toolkit that greatly expand the boundaries of Airtable's capabilities.

What you'll do

• Architect and scale complex systems like our realtime database engine, revision history, and formula engine.


• Design core pieces of Airtable’s infrastructure, optimizing for long-term maintainability, performance, and reliability.


• Build and scale systems for monitoring, tracing, profiling, debugging, and deploying Airtable.


• Take full ownership and responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining core Airtable features, end-to-end.

• You have experience in databases, distributed systems, and backend performance measurement and optimization.


• You derive joy from refactoring and abstracting in order to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand.


• You have a strong background in computer science and mathematics.

• Health care: we have you 100% covered (and your dependents 65% covered) with competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance. You’ll also be eligible for a complimentary membership to One Medical Group.


• High Deductible Health Plan w/ Health Spend Account contribution


• Learning & Development: we offer a $2,000 per year stipend for your personal career development


• $200 monthly wellness stipend for you to use to invest in your overall wellness


• Mental Health Support


• Family Planning Support (fertility, adoption, surrogacy)


• Meals and Snacks: our offices are empty these days, but when we’re back we’ll continue to have high-quality catered lunches and well-stocked kitchens


• Generous PTO, sick leave, and parental leave

About Airtable

Airtable is working on the next computer revolution: one where anyone – even without technical training – can create customized applications that fit their needs, build more interconnected teams, and take part in a growing community of people who share what they create. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Airtable powers teams at more than 200,000 organizations around the world. Our recent Series D funding round, which included Thrive Capital, Coatue, and Benchmark, doubled our total investment to more than $350 million. And we're just getting started.