Software Engineer, Observability

Airtable is seeking a Software Engineer, Observability to lead the modernization of our observability stack, building resilient systems at scale and empowering engineers with best-in-class observability. The role involves architecting and scaling core observability, leading the design and evolution of logging, metrics, and tracing pipelines, and guiding a growing team of infrastructure engineers.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Generous paid time off
• 401k matching
• Stock options