Staff Software Engineer, Developer Infra

Summary

Join Airbnb's Dev Infra team and build the future of developer infrastructure! We're building cloud-based developer environments, blazing-fast build systems, and a polyglot monorepo. You will drive technical strategy, lead in writing high-leverage infrastructure code, and influence the direction of our Python and Bazel-based polyglot monorepo strategy. Partner with engineers across the Infra org, AI/ML community, Developer Platform, and broader Airbnb engineering community. This role requires deep expertise in Python, Bazel, and infrastructure development in large-scale monorepo environments. You'll build robust tools, optimize build performance, and scale developer workflows across the organization.

Requirements

• 9+ years of industry experience (and/or relevant academic experience)
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
• You are a full-cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle
• Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
• You are a strong problem solver and have solid debugging skills
• You are passionate about developer productivity and making developer lives better

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building the technical strategy and evolving Airbnb’s developer infrastructure that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost
• Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities. Your customers will be all engineers at Airbnb
• A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Deliver frameworks and platforms that are secure, efficient, mature and highly available that abstract away infrastructure complexity
• Work with other talented and friendly infrastructure engineers to build the foundation for Airbnb’s technical growth over the next decade

Benefits

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