Airtable - Software Engineer, Compute (8+ YOE)
Requirements
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise building and operating a Kubernetes based internal service platform, • 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 • Clear, thoughtful communicator who collaborates effectively across many engineering teams • Empathetic partner to product engineers, with a strong sense of ownership and autonomy • Preferably experience with AWS infrastructure and EKS
Responsibilities
• 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 • Rewrite our core deployment service from Typescript to Golang and adopt performant Kubernetes operator patterns to eliminate scaling bottlenecks on our larger clusters • Raise the bar on platform maturity • Improve developer experience around new service creation, deployment workflows, and operational best practices • Partner with Security to implement governance controls, least privilege access, image signing, and enterprise-grade infrastructure safeguards • Define and uphold operational excellence standards across the platform by defining good SLOs, measuring and upholding them • Lead through technical influence • Spend roughly 70% of your time in hands-on engineering and 30% in design reviews, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration • Review architecture proposals and guide high-impact infrastructure decisions • Mentor engineers on distributed systems and Kubernetes platform design • Collaborate closely with developers building and deploying services across Airtable
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