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Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Web Platform 
United States 
390850617

27.06.2024

A Typical Day:

As an engineer on Web Platform, you will work on technologies that help shape an industry-leading end to end developer experience. In this role you will:

  • Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics (developer experience, developer velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability) while reducing cost and providing new functionality to help make our team’s vision, and that of our broader org, a reality. Upcoming projects include modularizing our client observability libraries, code editor developer experience improvements, bundler enhancements, and improving CI debuggability.
  • Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and encourage adoption of tools and frameworks
  • Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings.
  • Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call
  • Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning

Your Expertise:

  • 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role, including frontend web development
  • Strong expertise with TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Strong expertise with advanced JavaScript frameworks such as Backstage or advance experience with VS Code
  • Strong communication skills and experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
  • Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
  • Expertise with working with documentation infrastructure like Backstage or similar, and/or working on IDE infrastructure like VS Code plugins or language server
  • Prior experience developing code leveraged by other developers
  • [Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Pay Range
$259,000 USD