Senior System Engineer, Airbnb
Collaboration Products
$162-199.5k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$162-199.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- A successful System Engineer possesses hands-on experience building applications, integrations, cloud development, and coding in modern language and tech stacks
- To accomplish this the Systems Engineer will possess a natural curiosity and strong analytical skills useful for solving complex problems, complemented by collaboration and communication skills as well as the ability to establish strong relationships across BizTech, Security, Procurement and business stakeholders
- Hands on Technical Experience
- Proficient in Python, Go, or Javascript
- Proficient in Github and code review practices
- Able to implement scalable, fast and reliable solutions
- API Development and best practices (Throttling, API Design, REST, HTTP)
- AWS Hands on experience; such as: Lambda, EC2, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, RDS, EKS, ECR, etc)
- Understands Infra as Code technologies (Terraform)
- Basic understanding of Kubernetes and Docker is a plus
- Understands System Design principles; such as: Concurrency, asynchronous processing, and scalability
- Communicating with stakeholders, gathering requirements and proposing solutions
- Weighing in and exploring out of box capabilities vs building something (build vs buy)
- Able to participate in on call rotations to respond to different workstreams and applications
- Able to maintain and monitor the health of systems in AWS (EC2, ALBs, RDS, etc)
- Nice to have: Migrations from on prem to cloud
- Technical expertise across the Collaboration Products stack (APIs, Tool usage, Management, Configuration)
- Asana
- Airtable
- Jira & Confluence
- Slack
- Miro
- Lucid
- 5+ years of hands on technical experience across AWS
- 5+ years of experience of coding on Python, Go or Javascript
- Can design and code high performing software to handle elastic APIs consumption
- Understands how Jira works internally with capability to configure workflows and maintain a steady state of the system
- Hands-on coding, automation and scripting experience with JSON, REST APIs, Java, Groovy, Python among others; EKS and Docker experience with other integration tools is a plus
- Demonstrated success in designing and implementing integrations for cloud based applications; our current collaboration tech ecosystem contains Atlassian Jira, Asana, Airtable, Moveworks, Miro, Slack, Zoom amongst other applications
- [Nice to Have] Experience with OnPrem to Cloud migrations for Jira Software as well as Jira Service Mgmt
- Preparations
- Tech Assessment
- Execution of Migration
What the job involves
- The Collaboration Products team is responsible for managing the tech stack and ecosystem of our core collaboration technologies for Airbnb employees across the globe
- Our mission is to deliver a streamlined, cloud-based collaboration tech stack that enables our collaboration capabilities for Airbnb teams so that we can collaborate effectively as we live and work anywhere in the world
- Our team is organized into four pods: Project and Portfolio Mgmt, Service Mgmt, Visualizations and Connections
- The Engineer for Collaboration Products is responsible for continuously delivering, managing, optimizing, automating, and integrating across the collaboration products stack
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
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 HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
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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