Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Summary

Join Airbnb's Observability team and help build the next generation of our platform using open-source technologies. We're looking for experienced engineers (6+ years) to design, implement, and operate scalable distributed systems processing billions of events per minute. You will work with cutting-edge technologies like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Kubernetes, contributing to a highly available and performant service. The role is US-remote eligible, with occasional office work possible. Compensation includes a competitive salary ($185,000-$223,000 USD), bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits. We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

Requirements

• 6+ years industry experience
• Experience with Metrics Frameworks: Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, OpenTelemetry
• Experience with Logging: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Kibana
• Experience with Distributed Tracing: OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Jaeger
• Experience with Profiling: JVM, go pprof
• Experience with Cloud-Native technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, AWS
• Experience with Languages: Golang, Ruby/Python, Java/Kotlin, Javascript/Typescript (Good CS fundamentals and be unafraid to jump into unfamiliar code)
• Experience with Automated correlation and anomaly detection
• Experience with Site performance tracking and management
• Experience with Building robust distributed systems that can be depended on to troubleshoot our production system
• Experience with Building high-leverage tools for other engineers at Airbnb
• Great communication skills and eagerness to learn and share knowledge within the engineering organization

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate resilient and scalable distributed systems that processes billions of events per minute
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code, leveraging and contributing back to open source
• Help Airbnb engineers self-solve issues and share best practices for building observable applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Similarly interested in Metrics Frameworks: Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, OpenTelemetry
• Similarly interested in Logging: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Kibana
• Similarly interested in Distributed Tracing: OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Jaeger
• Similarly interested in Profiling: JVM, go pprof
• Similarly interested in Cloud-Native technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, AWS
• Similarly interested in Languages: Golang, Ruby/Python, Java/Kotlin, Javascript/Typescript (Good CS fundamentals and be unafraid to jump into unfamiliar code)
• Similarly interested in Automated correlation and anomaly detection
• Similarly interested in Site performance tracking and management
• Similarly interested in Building robust distributed systems that can be depended on to troubleshoot our production system
• Similarly interested in Building high-leverage tools for other engineers at Airbnb
• Similarly interested in Great communication skills and eagerness to learn and share knowledge within the engineering organization

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits