Airbnb is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Users, Listings and Platforms team as a Software Engineer to work on the Viaduct project, a unified data access layer and platform connecting almost all of Airbnb’s online data. You will be responsible for creating new products for Guests and Hosts, driving partnerships with tenant product teams, and developing technical expertise in various areas of the Viaduct framework.

Requirements

• 5+ years of work experience in a relevant engineering role
• Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
• Experience operating critical online backend services
• Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects

Responsibilities

• Coding in high-impact, deep complexity domains, owning projects end-to-end
• Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap
• Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
• Developing technical expertise in various areas of the Viaduct framework as well as with product teams’ use cases and requests
• Collaborating with a few experienced teammates to enable Viaduct tenant engineers to be autonomous in identifying and resolving performance and cost inefficiencies within their code written in the Viaduct platform
• Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers

Benefits

Bonus and incentives