Airtable

Software Engineer, Compute (8+ YOE)

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Remote - US · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$196k-$340kDetected 116 days ago

TypeScriptGoDistributed SystemsAWSKubernetesTerraformCI/CDJenkinsCommunicationCollaborationMentoringArgo CD

About the role

More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.
This is a role that has engineering wide impact.
We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Build and evolve Airtable's compute platform
Design, implement, and scale core Kubernetes platform capabilities used across ~70 clusters, spread across multiple environments.
Lead foundational modernization efforts such as migrating to a new CNI plugin to overhaul IP security rule management across clusters and regions
Partner with Security to implement governance controls, least privilege access, image signing, and enterprise-grade infrastructure safeguards
Lead through technical influence
Spend roughly 70% of your time in hands-on engineering and 30% in design reviews, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration
Mentor engineers on distributed systems and Kubernetes platform design
Collaborate closely with developers building and deploying services across Airtable
We enable engineers across the company to build, deploy, and operate reliable services on Kubernetes with strong security, governance, and performance guardrails.
If you're excited about building internal platforms, shaping infrastructure strategy, and partnering closely with product and security teams to power a rapidly growing enterprise business, we'd love to hear from you.

Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including controllers/operators, CRDs, networking, and cluster architecture
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, OpenTofu, Pulumi, or similar
Experience with CI/CD and deployment tooling such as Spinnaker, ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, or similar
Preferably experience with AWS infrastructure and EKS

Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation.
$196,000 - $339,900 USD

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable.

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes.
The Compute Platform team is responsible for building and evolving the infrastructure that powers Airtable's services at scale.
We are looking for an engineer to help lead the next phase of platform maturity in how we run Kubernetes at Airtable.

This listing is sourced directly from Airtable's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.