Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Network Infrastructure 

United States 

914590622

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:

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
• Deep understanding of cloud native networking and distributed system concepts.
• 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.