[Hiring] Senior Staff Software Engineer @Airbnb

Role Description

Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join their Site Reliability Engineering team. The Senior Staff Engineer is a key member of the technical team who will help facilitate a best-in-class enterprise-wide SRE program that enables the business. They will be responsible for driving the continued development of a long-term Reliability strategy and for ensuring the overall performance and reliability of Airbnb’s infrastructure and products.

• Work closely with engineering teams to provide tools, processes, and expertise to make services easy to operate and as reliable as possible.
• Bring a unique skill set and experience to the organization, solving broader technical challenges around infrastructure.
• Lend expertise to specific teams and deep dive into projects as needed.
• Expected to be hands-on and contribute code and/or be involved in the architecture/design.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies.
• Strong leadership skills, with 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms, with a deep understanding of multi-cloud environments.

Requirements

• Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability.
• Design, implement and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards.
• Create incident management processes that can scale with the organization.
• Foster the SRE/Reliability model that considers the nuances of an engineering culture.
• Bring a strong customer focus to the Reliability function.
• Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability.
• Automate as much as possible and always configure as code.
• Predict future failures and work proactively to mitigate them.
• Advocate and implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, etc.).

Benefits

• Base pay range: $244,000 — $305,000 USD.
• Role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company Description

Airbnb was born in 2007 and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. We strive to connect people and places.

• Community based on connection and belonging.
• Long-term decisions considering all stakeholders.