Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Viaduct team and contribute to the development and migration of "Viaduct Modern", a new version of the unified data access layer. You will work on various parts of the system, including the engine, API, observability, reliability, performance, and schema modeling. Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to improve reliability and performance. Develop technical expertise in various areas of the Viaduct framework. Support the customer base of Viaduct developers. This is a remote eligible position, requiring residence in a state where Airbnb has a registered entity.

Requirements

• 9+ years of work experience in a relevant engineering role
• Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
• Experience operating critical online backend services
• Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects

Responsibilities

• Code in high-impact, complex domains, owning projects end-to-end
• Drive partnerships with product teams to inform our roadmap
• Frequently work in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
• Develop technical expertise in various areas of the Viaduct framework as well as with product teams’ use cases and requests
• Collaborate with experienced teammates to enable Viaduct tenant engineers to be autonomous in identifying and resolving performance and cost inefficiencies within their code written in the Viaduct platform
• Support the customer base of Viaduct developers

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise with GraphQL and Kotlin

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits