[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Experience @Airbnb

Role Description

As a Senior Backend (or Fullstack) Engineer, you will be partnering with Reliability, Platform, and Infrastructure teams and utilize your extensive knowledge of web technologies to lead and execute on building the paved path for Airbnb’s current and future internal needs. Your primary objective will be to make it easier to understand what’s happening in production and quickly triage bugs and outages.

A Typical Day

• Collaborate with the Reliability Experience, Incident Management, Observability, and Resiliency teams to design and develop high quality UX.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality, tested pull requests and reviewing others’ designs and code.
• Build appropriate tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create and present your own design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering, particularly in the Reliability and Observability space.
• Do all this in an opinionated fashion, with humility and curiosity, as we are our own product managers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience
• Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in Data or Observability spaces (Prometheus is a plus)
• Strong collaboration with colleagues across multiple timezones
• Fluency in Java, Python or one object-oriented language
• Experience with airbnb.io/visx/ is preferred but not required
• Experience with Grafana and similar solutions is preferred but not required
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Demonstrated knowledge of practical data structures and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth without a dedicated product manager
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

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.