Senior Backend Engineer, Airbnb
Viaduct
$185-223k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$185-223k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of work experience in a relevant engineering role
- Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
- Experience operating critical online backend services
- Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
- Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL and Kotlin
What the job involves
- Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. Our Users, Listings and Platforms team is a group responsible for creating new products for our Guests and Hosts
- Viaduct is a unified data access layer and platform connecting almost all of Airbnb’s online data. Today, 65% of Airbnb’s online traffic and products flow through the Viaduct infrastructure service
- Residing at the center of Airbnb’s tech stack between the user-facing products and backend infrastructure, Viaduct provides a global schema & query system through a GraphQL interface
- Our team mission is to “Bring modularity to the central schema, providing a simple, efficient, and reliable developer experience at scale.”
- The Viaduct team is one of the most tenured and experienced teams in the company, setting the best practices and next-gen architecture for Airbnb
- We work closely with infrastructure teams (Build Infra, Service Platform, CI/CD, Reliability, Observability, Developer Experience to name a few) as well as product engineers
- The Viaduct team has embarked on a mission to upgrade today’s solution with a new version of the system called “Viaduct Modern”
- This modern system is built on a new architecture that allows for future improvements and gains in the form of tenant developer experience, cost performance and team autonomy
- You will join the team on this journey in both the creation of the new system as well as the migration of tenants away from today’s solution
- You will work on various parts of the system including the engine, the API, observability and monitoring and schema modeling
- Coding in high-impact, deep complexity domains, owning projects end-to-end
- Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap
- Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
- Developing technical expertise in various areas of the Viaduct framework as well as with product teams’ use cases and requests
- Collaborating with a few experienced teammates to enable Viaduct tenant engineers to be autonomous in identifying and resolving performance and cost inefficiencies within their code written in the Viaduct platform
- Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers
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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