The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems. We own and continuously improve Airbnb’s test automation tools, environments and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems
The Difference You Will Make:
As a global company and product, tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to our internal stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the tooling and frameworks necessary to assure quality at scale.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by architecting and developing our test tools/environments/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, leading design reviews to architect testable systems, and guiding designs and code to improve its modularity and testability. You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
A Typical Day:
Build, maintain and support our platforms – infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise in distributed systems
Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
Work with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes
Your Expertise:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
5+ years of software development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
Demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Swift, Kotlin, Python, Typescript, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#
Demonstrated expertise in developing for testability, test automation frameworks and infrastructure
Experience architecting and/or developing distributed systems
Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams and leaders.
Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction
Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact