Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Cloud Experience
$196-230k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$196-230k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- A degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces such as APIs, CLIs or declarative configuration at large scale
- Deep understanding in some of these: Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infra automations, public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering teams
- Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills
Desirable
- Experience building AI agents that use tools or APIs and evaluating their behavior
- Contributions to open source infrastructure projects
- Experience building Kubernetes controllers
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure team, you will be at the forefront of developing the AI-native infrastructure platform that supports all teams across Airbnb
- Your primary focus will be building interfaces and agent-driven capabilities that help engineers provision and manage services throughout their lifecycle. This work spans developer APIs and CLIs; Kubernetes infrastructure and cloud automation; smart scheduling and autoscaling; multi-region capabilities and integrations with identity and security systems and the service mesh
- You will partner with teams across Airbnb to deliver on the next generation of cloud capabilities for advancing our platforms supporting AI and ML workloads . With a global user base, our team's core values emphasize reliability, security, developer experience, efficiency, and scalability
- Deliver secure, efficient, and highly available frameworks and platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity, while optimizing and enhancing existing systems to strengthen availability, boost efficiency, and adapt to an AI-native world
- Develop APIs and tools enabling Airbnb engineers to simplify service management and provisioning while securely scaling platform enhancements
- Use and extend open source projects such as Kubernetes and Argo CD. Contribute improvements upstream when they benefit the broader community
- Create agent-driven workflows with clear change previews and validation
- Work with service owners and partner teams to identify confusing workflows and improve them
- Debug production issues and improve the reliability and visibility of the systems you own
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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