Senior Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure

Summary

Join Airbnb's Developer Environments and Tooling team and build infrastructure that enables high-velocity local development. You will work on technologies shaping an industry-leading developer experience, building technical strategy, and evolving Airbnb's developer infrastructure. Partner with engineering leaders across Airbnb to ensure adoption of new capabilities. As a player/coach, you'll contribute to code quality and operational excellence. You will deliver secure, efficient, and highly available frameworks and platforms, optimizing existing systems for performance and efficiency. This role requires significant experience in software development and cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• 5 - 9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters or 2+ years with a PhD
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2)
• Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Be a full-cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• Be a strong problem solver and have solid debugging skills
• Be passionate about developer productivity and making developer lives better

Responsibilities

• Build the technical strategy and evolve Airbnb’s developer infrastructure that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost
• Partner with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities
• Be a player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Deliver frameworks and platforms that are secure, efficient, mature and highly available that abstract away infrastructure complexity
• Optimize existing systems/services to improve performance and efficiency
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices
• Work with other talented and friendly infrastructure engineers to build the foundation for Airbnb’s technical growth over the next decade

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits