Software Engineer, Infrastructure (4-8 YOE)

<div class="content-intro"><p>Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.</p></div><p>Airtable’s infrastructure is evolving to meet the needs of our fast growing engineering org. We are looking for infrastructure engineers to join our team to help improve critical product infrastructure, with a focus on building systems that have a great developer experience and will scale as we grow.</p> <p>We currently have openings on:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Compute:</strong> The compute pod builds and manages our&nbsp;<a class="c-link c-link--underline" href="https://medium.com/airtable-eng/managing-kubernetes-resources-across-multiple-clusters-ec4b3a58005c" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://medium.com/airtable-eng/managing-kubernetes-resources-across-multiple-clusters-ec4b3a58005c" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Kubernetes-based platform</a> that supports every service at Airtable, including all new AI services such as vector databases, AI evals store, and document extraction and understanding services. We have a lot of exciting foundational work in our roadmap, such as <ul> <li>Overhauling our network stack and service discovery, to simplify service setup and strengthen security</li> <li>Region level disaster recovery, and bringing up compute platform from 0-&gt;1 in a new region</li> <li>Building custom Kubernetes operators for reliably managing some of our most critical workloads</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>Developer Platform</strong>: The Developer Platform team sits at the intersection of all engineering at Airtable, focusing on building the internal tooling, frameworks, and CI/CD systems that power our product teams. We strive to streamline developer workflows - from build and test cycles to production deployments—and foster a best-in-class developer experience. Join us if you’re passionate about creating high-leverage solutions that enable engineers to deliver features quickly, reliably, and at scale.</li> </ul> <p><strong><em>Please note: </em><em>while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time:</em></strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><em>Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration</em></strong></li> <li><strong><em>Based remotely in the greater Seattle area</em></strong></li> </ul> <h1><strong>What you'll do</strong></h1> <ul> <li>Proactively identify and lead significant improvements to Airtable’s infrastructure, working across teams and product areas to maximize business and engineering impact.</li> <li>Work on systems-level problems in a complex design space where scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security really matter.</li> <li>Build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions that will be used by Airtable’s engineers for years to come.</li> <li>Take full ownership of components of Airtable’s infrastructure, including responsibility for reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability of our production environment.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>Who you are</strong></h1> <ul> <li>You have 4-8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment. <strong>Please note this is not a new grad position.&nbsp;</strong></li> <li>You have experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure.</li> <li>You derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions in order to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand.</li> <li>You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field.</li> <li><em>You are currently based or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.</em></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace wh