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Airtable

Software Engineer, Data

San Francisco, CA

Airtable's unique approach to enabling end-user software creation has struck a chord with users across many industries and use cases. Our accelerating present and future growth, coupled with our ambitious product surface area, brings many challenges. Data engineering can play a critical role in understanding how people use the open-ended toolkit that Airtable offers, thereby enabling our team to improve users' experience and accelerate their rate of success.

As one of the early data engineers at Airtable, you'll make an enormous contribution to our burgeoning data engineering efforts. You'll design and own mission-critical data pipelines to enable decision-making, partner with company leaders to create scalable data solutions and launch innovative alerting and visualization solutions.

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What you'll do


  • Work between our engineering organization and stakeholders from our data science, growth, sales, marketing, and product teams, to understand the data needs of the business and produce pipelines, data marts and other data solutions that enable better product and growth decision-making.

  • Design and update our foundational business tables in order to simplify analysis across the entire company.

  • Continue to improve the performance and reliability of our data-warehouse.

  • Build and enforce a pattern language across our data stack, ensuring that our event taxonomy and tables are consistent, accurate, and well-understood.


Who you are

  • You're passionate and thoughtful about building systems that enhance human understanding.

  • You have 2-4 years of professional experience designing, creating and maintaining scalable data pipelines.

  • You've wrangled enough data to understand how often the complex systems that produce data can go wrong.

  • You can write clear, correct code in at least one programming language, and are willing to become effective in others as needed to get your job done.

  • You are highly effective with SQL and understand how to write and tune complex queries.

  • You communicate with clarity and precision in written form; experience communicating with graphs and plots, or at least understanding how to enable other people to do this, is a big bonus.


Want to Learn More? Our team faces significant challenges surrounding performance & reliability, read more!


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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Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA
Job ID: 4731316002
Employment Type: Other

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