Software Engineer, Compute (8+ YOE)

What You’ll Do

Build and evolve Airtable’s compute platform

• Design, implement, and scale core Kubernetes platform capabilities used across ~70 clusters, spread across multiple environments.
• Lead foundational modernization efforts such as migrating to a new CNI plugin to overhaul IP security rule management across clusters and regions.
• Rewrite our core deployment service from Typescript to Golang and adopt performant Kubernetes operator patterns to eliminate scaling bottlenecks on our larger clusters.

Raise the bar on platform maturity

• Improve developer experience around new service creation, deployment workflows, and operational best practices.
• Partner with Security to implement governance controls, least privilege access, image signing, and enterprise-grade infrastructure safeguards.
• Define and uphold operational excellence standards across the platform by defining good SLOs, measuring and upholding them.

Lead through technical influence

• Spend roughly 70% of your time in hands-on engineering and 30% in design reviews, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration.
• Review architecture proposals and guide high-impact infrastructure decisions.
• Mentor engineers on distributed systems and Kubernetes platform design.
• Collaborate closely with developers building and deploying services across Airtable.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise building and operating a Kubernetes based internal service platform.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including controllers/operators, CRDs, networking, and cluster architecture.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, OpenTofu, Pulumi, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment tooling such as Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, or similar.
• Clear, thoughtful communicator who collaborates effectively across many engineering teams.
• Empathetic partner to product engineers, with a strong sense of ownership and autonomy.
• Preferably experience with AWS infrastructure and EKS.