Software Engineer, Infrastructure (4-8 YOE)

About this role

Airtable seeks experienced infrastructure engineers to build and enhance systems supporting their platform across compute, developer tooling, and traffic management. You'll own critical infrastructure components, improve developer experience, and work on foundational projects like Kubernetes management, CI/CD systems, and API gateway optimization.

What you'll do

• Lead improvements to infrastructure systems across compute, developer platform, or traffic engineering teams
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms and custom operators for managing workloads
• Design CI/CD systems, internal tooling, and frameworks to improve developer workflows
• Manage API gateway, edge networking, and request routing infrastructure for reliability and performance
• Own production infrastructure components including reliability, performance, and observability
• Work cross-functionally to solve complex systems-level problems at scale

What they're looking for

• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Database and data infrastructure experience
• API gateway technologies (Envoy, Nginx, Pingora)
• CI/CD systems and developer tooling
• Edge networking and CDN/WAF knowledge
• Systems design and clean abstraction building
• Production environment optimization

Benefits

• Hybrid work model with office locations in SF Bay Area, NYC, or remote Seattle area
• Work on foundational infrastructure projects with high business impact
• Opportunity to shape systems used by hundreds of engineers
• Exposure to AI services and modern infrastructure challenges
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity