Senior Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Network Infrastructure
$244-300k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$244-300k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- The Networking team within Airbnb’s Cloud Infrastructure org owns the entire Airbnb production network infrastructure
- The group is responsible for designing, building and operating the software and solutions that connect all Airbnb users and services, such as traffic proxy and load balancer, service mesh, VPC/backbone and cross-region connectivity, network monitoring and security systems
- With users around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency and high availability are our team’s core concerns
- 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
- Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) end user community, and we work closely with the open source community (e.g. k8s, istio) and peer companies to tackle cloud native engineering challenges at scale
- You will also have the chance to make an impact on the industry and open source communities
- 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
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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