[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Airbnb

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure team, you will be at the forefront of developing the AI-native infrastructure platform that supports all teams across Airbnb. Your primary focus will be building interfaces and agent-driven capabilities that help engineers provision and manage services throughout their lifecycle.

• Deliver secure, efficient, and highly available frameworks and platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity.
• Optimize and enhance existing systems to strengthen availability, boost efficiency, and adapt to an AI-native world.
• Develop APIs and tools enabling Airbnb engineers to simplify service management and provisioning while securely scaling platform enhancements.
• Use and extend open source projects such as Kubernetes and Argo CD; contribute improvements upstream when they benefit the broader community.
• Create agent-driven workflows with clear change previews and validation.
• Work with service owners and partner teams to identify confusing workflows and improve them.
• Debug production issues and improve the reliability and visibility of the systems you own.

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces such as APIs, CLIs or declarative configuration at large scale.
• Deep understanding in some of these: Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infra automations, public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills.

Requirements

• Experience building AI agents that use tools or APIs and evaluating their behavior.
• Contributions to open source infrastructure projects.
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $196,000 — $230,000 USD.
• Role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company Description

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Operating within the Cloud Infrastructure organization, the Cloud Experience team builds and maintains the foundational cloud platform experience that powers operations across Airbnb.