Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Viaduct team as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development and migration of a new, modern system. You will work on various aspects of the system, including the engine, API, observability, monitoring, and schema modeling. Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and performance. This role requires 5+ years of relevant engineering experience and proficiency in working cross-functionally. The position is US-remote eligible, with occasional office work or offsites. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

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

• Code in high-impact, deep complexity domains, owning projects end-to-end
• Drive partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap
• Frequently work in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
• Develop technical expertise in various areas of the Viaduct framework as well as with product teams’ use cases and requests
• Collaborate 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
• Support the customer base of Viaduct developers

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise with GraphQL and Kotlin

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits