Airbnb Senior Software Engineer GraphQL 

United States 

658693611

The Difference You Will Make:

• Viaduct tenant developers currently lack the observability tools to easily monitor, introspect, and debug issues specific to their business logic within Viaduct.
• You will help take observability and tooling to the next level for the developer experience of hundreds of engineers.
• You will push the boundaries of Airbnb’s infrastructure scale.
• Improved observability has wide impact and scope by unlocking performance and cost-saving opportunities for Viaduct tenants as well as contributing to scaling the Viaduct framework team’s operations. You will help provide tools to improve critical Airbnb product surface areas’ business metrics such as latency and costs.

A Typical Day:

• Coding in high-impact, deep complexity domains, owning projects end-to-end
• Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap as well as taking on metrics and tracing scaling challenges that push the boundaries of our existing observability infrastructure
• Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
• Developing technical expertise in Viaduct framework observability as well as informed with product teams’ use cases and requests
• Collaborating with a few experienced teammates to enable Viaduct tenant engineers to be autonomous in identifying and resolving performance and cost inefficiencies within their code written in the Viaduct platform
• Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers

Your Expertise:

• 6+ years of experience in a relevant role
• Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
• Experience operating critical online backend services
• Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
• Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL, Observability (tracing, telemetry, alerts), Kotlin