Software Engineer, Compute (8+ YOE)

We are looking for an engineer to help lead the next phase of platform maturity in how we run Kubernetes at Airtable. This is a role that has engineering wide impact. 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.

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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