# Sr. Engineering Manager, Enterprise Platform

**Company:** [Airtable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airtable)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $281k – $366k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Systems Engineering, Rust, backend architecture, performance engineering, enterprise customer engagement, Incident Management, on-call leadership, team mentoring, product management collaboration, large systems design
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Lead the Performance & Architecture team responsible for the core backend worker process powering every Airtable base. Manage senior engineers on a Rust rewrite for 100x scale, engage directly with enterprise customers on performance issues, and drive technical architecture decisions.

## Job Description

## 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.

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