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Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.
We are looking for founding members of our Traffic Engineering team. We are forming a Traffic Infrastructure team to ensure that traffic across Airtable's network and routing infrastructure is managed in a reliable, flexible, and secure manner. We are looking for software engineers experience in shipping code in the area of network routing, network security, and traffic engineering.
Airtable runs AWS infrastructure built on k8s that spans the globe. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.
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What you'll do- Serve as a founding engineer on a 3-person (plus plans to grow) Traffic Infrastructure software team.
- Assist in developing the vision and identifying high-impact early projects, and delivering your projects.
- Improve Airtable’s resilience to hardware issues (eg. network partitions, AZ loss, region loss, database failure), traffic spikes, and inefficient business logic.
- Evolve key foundations of Airtable’s infrastructure like RPC, service mesh, interprocess authentication, load balancing, route definitions, global traffic routing, and failure recovery.
- 2+ years in Software Engineering
- Experience with service mesh, traffic engineering, and/or cloud networking preferred
- Experience working on high-scale, low-latency systems with better than 99.9% uptime SLOs preferred
- Deep experience with AWS and/or k8s preferred
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