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Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Infrastructure 
United States 
337780313

27.06.2024

A Typical Day:

  • Work closely across all teams at Airbnb to reduce the cost of our infrastructure.
  • Work with our largest services to optimize their performance through profiling, analysis and tuning.
  • Build distributed performance tooling to constantly collect performance data and develop automation to surface performance bottlenecks.
  • Lead continuous load testing in production to determine performance bottlenecks and vulnerabilities of airbnb.com.
  • Work on production performance issues to minimize latency for our customers.
  • Work to modernize Airbnb's software stack touching every layer.
  • Build infrastructure to deploy the latest hardware to our AWS Kubernetes clusters in order to minimize their footprint.

Your Expertise:

  • 9+ years of relevant performance optimization industry experience.
  • Deep software tuning and optimization experience, Java preferred but other major languages such as C++ acceptable.
  • Expertise in using metrics to uncover performance issues.
  • Familiarity with system hardware as it pertains to performance.
  • Familiarity with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
  • Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
  • You are a strong problem solver and have solid performance debugging skills.
  • Experience of load testing software either in production or through benchmarking
  • You are passionate about efficiency and performance

How We'll Take Care of You:

Pay Range
$254,000 USD