Airtable

Airtable

Airtable is a low-code platform for building next-gen apps, organizing data, and streamlining workflows with AI. It combines the speed of a spreadsheet with the power of a database, offering collaborative features and templates for various needs.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
$1400M raised

Description

  • Design, implement, and scale core Kubernetes platform capabilities across approximately 70 clusters and multiple environments.
  • Lead modernization efforts such as migrating to a new CNI plugin and improving IP security rule management across clusters and regions.
  • Rewrite the core deployment service from TypeScript to Golang and apply Kubernetes operator patterns to remove scaling bottlenecks.
  • Improve developer experience for new service creation, deployment workflows, and operational best practices.
  • Partner with Security to implement governance controls, least-privilege access, image signing, and infrastructure safeguards.
  • Define, measure, and uphold platform operational excellence standards, including service-level objectives.
  • Spend most of the time in hands-on engineering work while also contributing to design reviews, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration.
  • Review architecture proposals and help guide high-impact infrastructure decisions.
  • Mentor engineers on distributed systems and Kubernetes platform design.
  • Collaborate closely with developers building and deploying services across Airtable.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise building and operating a Kubernetes-based internal service platform.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, including controllers/operators, CRDs, networking, and cluster architecture.
  • Experience with 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 communication skills and the ability to collaborate across many engineering teams.
  • Empathy for product engineers, with strong ownership and autonomy.
  • Preferably experience with AWS infrastructure and EKS.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $196,000 to $339,900 USD for work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles.
  • Total compensation may include benefits, restricted stock units, and incentive compensation.
  • Comprehensive benefit offerings are available.
  • Equal opportunity employer with accommodations available during the application or interview process.

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