Staff Software Engineer Search Infrastructure jobs at Airbnb in Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

As a member of the network infra team, you will be working with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies of cloud native network stack from Layer3 - Layer7. You will contribute to the key infrastructure components that connect all Airbnb users and services across the globe. You will have the chance to define and influence large infrastructure initiatives such as global traffic load balancing and disaster recovery, next-gen service mesh, cross-region gateways and edge security etc.

A Typical Day:

• Work with open source communities (e.g. istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services;
• Build the cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services;
• Work with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airbnb services;
• Design the multi-region network architecture on public clouds, and build software and operation tools to manage Airbnb’s production network;
• Work with product and engineering teams to optimize the network performance for Airbnb services;

Your Expertise:

• FLUENCY IN ENGLISH REQUIRED
• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
• Expertise with virtual network architecture on public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and their network service offerings (e.g., VPC, Security Group, PrivateLink and related products.).
• Experience running large scale networking systems and software (e.g. Edge proxies, DNS, CDN, network gateways), experience working with istio, Envoy is a plus.
• You are a full-cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering teams.
• You are a strong problem solver and have led a team that is on-call for production infrastructure before.
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.

Airbnb Cloud Infrastructure in the Media:

• Zero-downtime Istio upgrades across thousands of pods/VMs – - 2025
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, , Edie Yang, .
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, , Jingming Guo
• The Airbnb Tech Blog 2023, , Ying Zhu
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2022, , Kevin Leimkuhler, Doug Jordan.
• -2022
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2021, . Weibo He, Stephan Chan.
• -2021
• - 2021
• - 2020
• - 2019
• - 2020
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Offices: Brazil

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 other’s 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.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience
• Experience building internal infrastructure UX, particularly in Data or Observability spaces (Prometheus is a plus)
• Expertise in visualization of large amounts of data in a clean, concise fashion
• Strong collaboration with colleagues across multiple timezones
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, Typescript, React and related web technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack...)
• Experience with 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.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Staff Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by driving the strategy towards comprehensive automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents.

A Typical Day:

• Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases.
• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development.
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release.
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Kotlin, Java) and strong scripting skills
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Espresso)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Senior Android Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining our test tools/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, and guiding designs and code to improve its modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company and product, the tests, tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to the expectations of our internal stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the test coverage, tooling and frameworks necessary to assure that our product workflows deliver a seamless high quality experience for our customers.

A Typical Day:

• Leverage AI and build, maintain and support our platforms - testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise Android development and testing
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Work closely with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of mobile development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• Demonstrable knowledge in Kotlin, Java and Espresso
• Demonstrated expertise in developing testability and test automation frameworks and infrastructure for testing Android mobile applications at a large scale
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential

Offices: São Paulo, Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

• Tech-lead a high-performing team of software engineers to elevate the OpenSearch ecosystem at Airbnb, driving innovation and setting technical direction.
• Architect and build robust systems to enhance the reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of OpenSearch platform.
• Develop and maintain advanced tooling that streamlines the developer experience for all OpenSearch users across Airbnb.
• Actively contribute to the OpenSearch open source community, sharing insights and improvements.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering their professional growth and technical excellence.

A Typical Day:

• Participate in design workshops focused on the vision and architecture of Airbnb’s next-generation OpenSearch platform.
• Dedicate substantial focus time to designing and implementing core OpenSearch components, leveraging cutting-edge large language models as collaborative tools.
• Hold regular 1:1 sessions with team members to provide coaching, direction, and support.
• Engage in in-person gatherings with fellow engineers and cross-functional partners to drive alignment and collaboration.

Your Expertise:

• Proficiency with Java for building scalable, maintainable systems
• BS, MS, PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 9+ years of industry experience with a bachelor’s or master’s degree, and 6+ years with a PhD degree.
• Proven expertise with ElasticSearch or OpenSearch in production environments.
• Demonstrated history of technical leadership, successfully guiding engineering teams to deliver impactful, high-quality solutions.
• Exceptional communication skills with a strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Offices: Brazil

The Difference You Will Make:

• Contribute to strengthening Airbnb’s OpenSearch ecosystem by actively participating in development, innovation, and upkeep.
• Build systems that drive reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency in our OpenSearch infrastructure.
• Develop tooling that enhances the developer experience for all OpenSearch users at Airbnb.
• Collaborate and share improvements with the OpenSearch open source community.

A Typical Day:

• Participate in design workshops focused on shaping the future of Airbnb’s search platform.
• Dedicate significant focus time to building and improving tooling for ElasticSearch/OpenSearch upgrades, using state-of-the-art language models as powerful engineering aides.
• Engage in 1:1 mentoring sessions with experienced staff engineers to develop technical and professional skills.
• Connect with team members and partners during in-person gatherings to align on goals and foster collaboration.

Your Expertise:

• Proficiency with Java for building scalable, maintainable systems
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience with a bachelor’s or master’s degree. No prior industry experience required for candidates with a PhD.
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch or OpenSearch is a plus.
• Strong communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders.
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Offices: Brazil