# Software Engineer, Infrastructure (8+ YOE)

**Company:** [Airtable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airtable)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $196k – $340k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Databases, Service-Oriented Architecture, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Observability, Networking, Disaster Recovery, Computer Science
**Posted:** 2026-05-26

> Senior backend/infrastructure engineer building and scaling Airtable’s Kubernetes platform and developer tooling. Own reliability, performance, and abstractions used across all engineering teams.

## Job Description

## 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.

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