Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Core Services Auth Infra 

United States 

698385052

A Typical Day:

This engineer on Auth Infra will work on distributed systems that have higher reliability and security requirements than most backend systems or services. The Auth infra systems have a large number of critical services, and any downtime across these services can result in a hard downtime for the Airbnb platform. In addition, we collaborate closely with the product and infra engineering teams to build new features and evolve the systems to meet the engineering challenges from the business growing and evolving.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include

• Designing and implementing new authentication and authorization systems . This could involve designing new protocols, implementing new features, or integrating with existing systems.
• Maintaining and debugging existing authentication and authorization systems . This could involve fixing bugs, improving performance, contributing to production excellence, or adding new features, code reviews.
• Providing technical support to other engineers and developers. This could involve answering questions, debugging code, or helping to troubleshoot problems.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest security threats and trends. This could involve reading security blogs, attending conferences, or taking security courses.

Your Expertise:

• Experience working on distributed systems and evaluating trade-offs
• Experience working in Authentication or Authorization systems is a plus
• Proficient in technical communication - writing design docs, presenting in design reviews, communicating future direction, success criteria and progress.
• Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
• Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team