Software Engineer, Infrastructure (4-8 Yoe)

Airtable Airtable · Enterprise · New York, NY +1 · Engineering

Software Engineer, Infrastructure role at Airtable focusing on building and improving critical product infrastructure, including Kubernetes-based platforms that support AI services like vector databases and AI eval stores. The role involves working on compute, network stack, service discovery, disaster recovery, and developer platform tooling to enhance scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security.

What you'd actually do

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

Skills

Required

  • Kubernetes
  • distributed systems
  • service-oriented architectures
  • data infrastructure
  • computer science background
  • degree in CS or related field

Nice to have

  • network stack
  • service discovery
  • disaster recovery
  • custom Kubernetes operators
  • CI/CD systems
  • developer workflows
  • scalability
  • efficiency
  • reliability
  • security
  • observability

What the JD emphasized

  • 4-8 years of industry experience
  • not a new grad position