Senior Systems Engineer, Airbnb

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure provisioning and management
• Expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and scalable infrastructure using containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service
• Expertise in one or more of Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Chef, Puppet
• Experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and maintaining tooling applications
• Broad capability in managing and supporting Linux and Windows Operating systems and their infrastructure
• Proficiency in general-purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, or Go
• Demonstrated tactical and strategic technical plan development, project management skills, and delegation capabilities
• Experience contributing to Open Source, speaking, blogging, or coordinating groups of technical individuals
• Experience with operating and executing as part of a distributed team using asynchronous workflows and communications

Desirable

• Success in the role includes meeting SLA goals on requests, corrective actions, and security tasks
• You will make a measurable improvement in infrastructural costs, deployment times, reliability, availability, and other measures, both within the team function as well as the organization at large
• You will accelerate productivity by consulting and enabling self-service automated solutions to manage and deploy applications faster with low friction
• You will design and iteratively improve Biztech infrastructure components and team managed applications via automation
• You will assist teams that do not have systems engineering resources deploy applications
• You will create clear and accurate documentation on Biztech infrastructure and processes for fault tolerance, resilience, change management, and business continuity. Present operational training and support ownership hand-off to peers/organizational units
• Overall, 50% of the time will be spent on project tasks and 50% on operational support tasks
• Hands on coding for infrastructure changes
• A typical day will involve reviewing outstanding task deadlines (operational, security, project, etc.)
• Specific day-to-day responsibilities will include developing and maintaining infrastructure, responding to issues, designing and executing projects, and documenting systems and services. You will write, review code, prepare and implement change management plans
• This role will collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop and maintain infrastructure and provide support
• You may be on-call, responding to incidents, triaging the request intake