Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Summary

Join Airbnb's Quality Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer and help build high-quality software efficiently. You will architect and develop test tools, environments, and frameworks; write and test product/system code; lead design reviews; and guide designs and code to improve modularity and testability. This role requires expertise in distributed systems, experience with various programming languages, and excellent communication skills. You will work with cross-functional teams and lead multiple teams, setting technical direction. The position is US-remote eligible, with occasional office work or offsites. Airbnb offers competitive compensation, including bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of software development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• Demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Swift, Kotlin, Python, Typescript, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#
• Demonstrated expertise in developing for testability, test automation frameworks and infrastructure
• Experience architecting and/or developing distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams and leaders
• Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and support our platforms – infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise in distributed systems
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Work with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes

Benefits

This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits