Airbnb Senior Staff Software Engineer Network Infrastructure 

United States 

923280319

The Difference You Will Make:

As a member of the Network/Edge Experience team, you will be working with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies of cloud native network stack from Layer4 - Layer7. You will contribute to the key infrastructure components that connect all Airbnb users and hosts to our 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.

A Typical Day:

• Work with open source technologies and communities (e.g. envoy/istio) to build the next generation cross-region gateways and load balancers to deliver Airbnb's edge services;
• Work with external partners, internal engineering stakeholders, and security teams to a deliver privacy, security and Antibot/DDoS solutions on the edge;
• Work with product and engineering teams to optimize the network performance for Airbnb services;
• Guide a team of software developers through the project lifecycle, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Communicate project progress, challenges, and opportunities to stakeholders.
• Mentor and support team members to help them achieve their career and project goals.
• Improve Edge Operations by optimizing observability, processes and reducing tech debt.

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
• Experience successfully delivering large scale multi-year roadmap with external dependencies
• Experience running large scale edge systems (e.g. reverse proxies, DNS, CDN, network gateways) in native Public Cloud, experience working with Istio/Envoy is a plus.
• Experience protecting websites against DDoS, Bot, and scrapers.
• 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 privacy, security, availability, operational excellence, technical quality and efficiency.