About the Role
This role focuses on improving critical product infrastructure for Airtable's evolving engineering organization, with an emphasis on scalable systems and excellent developer experience. Openings are available on the Compute team, managing a Kubernetes-based platform for all services including new AI services, and the Developer Platform team, building internal tooling, frameworks, and CI/CD systems to streamline developer workflows.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify and lead significant infrastructure improvements across teams to maximize business and engineering impact.
- Address systems-level problems focusing on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security.
- Build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions for engineers.
- Take full ownership of infrastructure components, including reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability in production.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of industry experience.
- Eagerness to learn and apply new technologies in a fast-changing environment.
- Experience with databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure.
- Passion for refactoring and building clean abstractions to simplify complex systems.
- Strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field.
- Currently based or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City.
Skills
- Databases
- Distributed systems
- Service-oriented architectures
- Data infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Network stack
- Service discovery
- Disaster recovery
- Kubernetes operators
- Internal tooling
- Frameworks
- CI/CD systems
Location
- San Francisco Bay Area (hybrid, Embarcadero office)
- New York City (hybrid, Soho office)
- Greater Seattle area (remote)
- Willingness to relocate to San Francisco Bay Area or New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area, New York City)
- Remote (Greater Seattle area)
Experience Level
- At least 8 years of industry experience
- Not an early career position
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $196,000 - $339,900 USD (base salary range)
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Restricted stock units
- Incentive compensation (may be included)
About the Company
- Airtable is a no-code app platform.
- Empowers users to accelerate critical business processes.
- Trusted by over 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100.
Equal Opportunity
- Airtable is an equal opportunity employer.
- Embraces diversity and strives for a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive.
- Welcomes people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
- All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by applicable laws.
- VEVRAA-Federal Contractor.
- Committed to providing reasonable accommodations for medical conditions, disabilities, or religious beliefs/practices during the application or interview process.
