# Software Engineer, Infrastructure (2-8 YOE)

**Company:** [Airtable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airtable)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA, Los Angeles, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $148k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Tidb, Spark, Kafka, Apache Flink, Distributed Systems, Databases
**Posted:** 2026-02-03

> Backend engineers build and scale Airtable's infrastructure across teams like Base, Compute, Data, Storage, and Traffic. Requires 2-8 years experience in distributed systems, databases; CS degree; hybrid work in SF, NYC, Seattle, or LA areas.

## 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
- 2-8 years of industry experience, excited about learning new technologies in a fast-changing environment. Not a new grad position.
- Experience in databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure.
- Derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand.
- Strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or related field.

## Compensation
Base salary range: $148,100 - $250,000 USD (varies by location including San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles). Total package includes benefits, restricted stock units, and possible incentive compensation.

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