Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join our Site Reliability Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to developing and maintaining tools and systems that enable our engineering teams to operate our services reliably and at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• 9+ years of experience in software engineering or SRE roles, with a focus on large scale distributed systems
• Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, such as Java, Python, or Go
• Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform
• Strong conviction in software development best practices, including version control, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain the tools and systems that support service reliability, monitoring, and alerting
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability in mind, and provide guidance on the appropriate use of tooling and automation
• Identify opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our services and drive their implementation
• Work with SREs to understand the challenges they face in operating our services and develop tools and systems to help them manage these challenges
• Participate in incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and industry best practices to improve our SRE tooling and incident response procedures
• Gain and maintain an intimate understanding of how the critical parts of the site work (services, infrastructure, tooling, and processes)
• Lead high-urgency incident management and mentor less-experienced team members in effectively handling incidents
• Contribute to better incident retrospectives, driving improvements in our overall reliability and incident response time