Airtable · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineer, Observability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $270K/yr
6+ years expAirtable is the no-code app platform that empowers organizations to transform how work gets done. The Observability team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect and scale core observability systems, ensuring engineers have the tools to measure performance and monitor reliability. The role involves leading the design of logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines while collaborating with various teams to enhance observability throughout the development lifecycle.
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Responsibilities
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 Airtable's 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 Airtable's monitoring capabilities at the cutting edge
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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
Airtable
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.35BKey Investors
XNGreenoaksThrive Capital
2022-07-01Secondary Market
2021-12-13Series F· $735M
2021-03-15Series E· $270M
Leadership Team
Howie Liu
Cofounder, CEO
Andrew Ofstad
Co-founder
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