At Airtable we are passionate about how our product democratizes software creation and empowers anyone to “create anything.” Just like Lego blocks, what our customers can build with Airtable is virtually limitless. Data engineering plays a critical role in building the data surrounding how people use the open-ended toolkit that Airtable offers, enabling our team to improve users' experience and understanding how our business is performing

As one of the data engineers at Airtable, you'll make an enormous contribution to our 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.

Learn more about our Engineering team and values here.

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 data pipelines and tables are consistent, accurate, and well-understood.

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of professional experience designing, creating and maintaining scalable data pipelines, preferably in Airflow.
• You've wrangled enough data to understand how often the complex systems that produce data can go wrong.
• You are proficient in at least one programming language (preferably Python), 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're passionate and thoughtful about building systems that enhance human understanding.
• You communicate with clarity and precision in written form; experience communicating with graphs and plots

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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