Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The Community You Will Join:

The Service Platform team is a part of our Developer Platform org and it enables Airbnb’s mission by empowering developers with a reliable, performant, and developer-friendly service platform to enable scalable service development at Airbnb. As we grow to achieve that mission, we’re looking to add a highly technical and mission-driven Sr. Staff Software Engineer to lead our Service Infrastructure efforts. The team drives core service development components including:

A Typical Day: 

As a senior technical individual contributor, you will partner closely with our senior leaders across the broader technical organization. Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority, all individual contributors at Airbnb are Software Engineers which means we expect you to be hands on and contribute code.

• Working closely with the other engineers on the Service Platform team, acting as a technical guide and mentor to ensure the team as a whole plans, designs, and executes work at the highest level.
• Responsible for building the technical vision and evolving Airbnb’s service development infrastructure that will directly move our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Service Performance, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost and providing new capabilities.
• Partnering with TLs across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new framework capabilities. Your customers will be all backend engineers at Airbnb. 

Your Expertise:

• Build System - Build system and various integrations to manage our jvm monorepo.
• Tooling - For integration testing, fault injection testing, API exploration etc. 
• Service IDL: Infrastructure to enable interface definitions and inter service communication.
• Dropwizard - Service framework uses Dropwizard under the hood. We configure dropwizard in accordance with our Thrift definitions and provide middleware to integrate custom features (like logging, observability, authentication) relevant to the Airbnb development ecosystem.
• Async programming frameworks - A framework for highly parallelized async processing.
• Resilience - Various resilience features are baked into all of our offerings - like circuit breaking, back pressure, bulk heading.
• Metrics and Observability - Facilities for metrics and observability. Automatically generate key metrics and dashboards that will be used to maintain healthy services.
• 12-15+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• Experienced in architectural patterns of high-scale backend infrastructure, such as build systems, RPC frameworks, and metrics and observability tooling.
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, and examples of working across teams and organizations on technical initiatives.

How We'll Take Care of You:

The starting base pay for this role is between $250,000 and $295,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: education, experience, and skills. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application,, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.