Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering

Summary

Join Airbnb's Site Reliability Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer and develop, maintain, and improve the tools and systems that ensure reliable, scalable services. Collaborate with engineering teams to implement best practices, participate in incident response, and lead high-urgency incident management. Leverage your expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and incident management to enhance operational efficiency and growth. This role requires strong coding skills, problem-solving abilities, and excellent communication. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits