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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer, Infrastructure (4-8 YOE) - **Company:** Formagrid Inc - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $187,000.0 - $260,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Databases, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Nginx, Service-Oriented Architecture, Working Model 2D, Information Technology, Api Gateway, Airtable - **Published:** August 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gl8uec ## About the Role + You have 4-8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment. Please note this is not a new grad position. + You have experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure. + You derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions in order to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand. + You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field. ## Description + Traffic: We are looking for founding members of our Traffic Engineering team. We recently formed a Traffic Infrastructure team to ensure that traffic across Airtable's network and routing infrastructure is managed in a reliable, flexible, and secure manner. Some the upcoming work in this team's charter include supporting improved performance in our secondary regions (like EU), bolstering our rate limiting and admission control infrastructure, and creating a consolidated and unified stateless route execution platform. We are looking for software engineers experienced in areas of API gateway (Envoy/Nginx/Pingora), edge networking like CDN/WAF, and stateless request serving platforms. Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are only hiring in the following locations at this time: + Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and are open to coming into our office (Embarcadero) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration + Based in New York City and are open to coming into our office (Soho) at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration + Based remotely in the greater Seattle area What you'll do + Proactively identify and lead significant improvements to Airtable's infrastructure, working across teams and product areas to maximize business and engineering impact. + Work on systems-level problems in a complex design space where scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security really matter. + Build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions that will be used by Airtable's engineers for years to come. + Take full ownership of components of Airtable's infrastructure, including responsibility for reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability of our production environment. ## Related Videos - [The Vonage Trivia Voyage: Quiz Your Way to the Top!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/761-the-vonage-trivia-voyage-quiz-your-way-to-the-top) - [Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for Q-Day](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100179-post-quantum-cryptography-preparing-for-q-day) - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Meet Your New BFF: Backend to Frontend without the Duct Tape](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/682-meet-your-new-bff-backend-to-frontend-without-the-duct-tape) - [Streaming AI Responses in Real-Time with SSE in Next.js & NestJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1630-streaming-ai-responses-in-real-time-with-sse-in-next-js-nestjs) - [Build and Deploy a Fullstack App with Open Source Tooling](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/775-build-and-deploy-a-fullstack-app-with-open-source-tooling) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [How Much FAANG Companies Actually Pay Software Engineers in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/230-how-much-faang-companies-actually-pay-software-engineers-in-2025)