Sr. Engineering Manager, Enterprise Platform

What you'll do

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of high-functioning systems engineers responsible for the core backend of every Airtable base.
• Engage directly with our largest enterprise customers, including in pre- and post-sales contexts. You'll be tapped when high-stakes accounts hit performance or scale challenges, and you'll work alongside AEs and Solutions Consultants to land and implement major deals.
• Partner closely with senior and staff ICs on deeply technical decisions across backend product initiatives, and to hold your own technically with the most senior engineers on the team.
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive technical decisions and initiatives, building products in a high-quality and sustainable way.
• Nurture a team of passionate and capable engineers: multiply the impact of senior engineers and coach and grow early-career engineers.
• Drive operational excellence and implement processes that help the team scale and stay productive, while preserving the agility our dynamic environment demands.

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience as an engineer (previously in a staff or TL-level IC position) AND 4+ years as a manager, or a similar combination.
• A systems background, with a genuine interest in improving product performance and the end-user experience - not just low-level performance for its own sake.
• Direct experience working with enterprise customers or large, third-party partners, including holding challenging technical conversations and helping sophisticated customers understand a broad, highly technical product. Experience supporting large, complex customers through technical issues is a strong plus.
• Strong experience working closely with Product Managers to define products, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption.
• Experience navigating and reasoning about large systems.
• A strong operational instinct and experience leading teams through incidents and on-call.
• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment, and growing and mentoring engineers.
• Experience managing, organizing, and prioritizing multiple projects and work streams.
• A deep appreciation for understanding the Airtable product end to end - the role demands fluency across the entirety of what we build.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Rust or large-scale in-memory databases.
• Background in performance engineering or architecture for high-scale systems.