Software Engineer, Infrastructure (8+ YOE)

What you'll do

• Proactively identify and lead significant improvements to Airtable’s infrastructure, working across teams and product areas to maximize business and engineering impact.
• Work on systems-level problems in a complex design space where scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security really matter.
• Build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions that will be used by Airtable’s engineers for years to come.
• Take full ownership of components of Airtable’s infrastructure, including responsibility for reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability of our production environment.

Who you are

• You have at least 8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment. Please note this is not an early career position.
• You have experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure.
• You derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions in order to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand.
• You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field.
• You are currently based or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City for this role.

Teams & Focus Areas

Compute:

• Builds and manages our Kubernetes-based platform that supports every service at Airtable, including all new AI services such as vector databases, AI evals store, and document extraction and understanding services.
• Overhauling our network stack and service discovery, to simplify service setup and strengthen security.
• Region level disaster recovery, and bringing up compute platform from 0->1 in a new region.
• Building custom Kubernetes operators for reliably managing some of our most critical workloads.

Developer Platform:

• Building the internal tooling, frameworks, and CI/CD systems that power our product teams.
• Streamline developer workflows — from build and test cycles to production deployments — and foster a best-in-class developer experience.