Staff Automation Engineer, Airbnb
Quality Engineering, BizTech
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 9+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation
- Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Javascript, Typescript, Java, Python) and strong scripting skills
- Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
- Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress)
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
- Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
What the job involves
- 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 product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, frameworks
- We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems
- As a Staff Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining automation coverage for features and releases
- You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability
- Lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases
- Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes
- Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency
- Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development
- Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release
- Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles
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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