✨ About The Role
- The role involves serving as the hands-on technical leader of a small team focused on traffic infrastructure.
- The candidate will be responsible for developing the vision and identifying impactful projects for the team.
- Building consensus across the infrastructure organization for architectural changes is a key responsibility.
- The position requires improving the resilience of Airtable's infrastructure against various hardware issues and traffic spikes.
- The candidate will evolve critical components of Airtable's infrastructure, including RPC, service mesh, and load balancing.
âš¡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in software engineering, demonstrating a strong technical background.
- Proven experience as a technical lead for multi-person projects or teams is essential, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Candidates should have a deep understanding of service mesh, traffic engineering, and cloud networking.
- Experience working on high-scale, low-latency systems with stringent uptime requirements is preferred.
- Familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes is highly desirable, showcasing the ability to manage complex infrastructure.