Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Developer Infrastructure, Python
$204-255k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-255k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an engineer with deep expertise in Python, Bazel, and infrastructure development in large-scale monorepo environments—someone who can build robust tools, optimize build performance, and scale developer workflows across the organization
- 9+ years of industry experience (and/or relevant academic experience)
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers
- You are a full-cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle
- Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- You are a strong problem solver and have solid debugging skills
- You are passionate about developer productivity and making developer lives better
What the job involves
- We're building cloud-based developer environments, blazing-fast build systems, and a polyglot monorepo that serves as a home for all infrastructure-authored code
- You'll drive technical strategy, lead by example in writing high-leverage infrastructure code, and influence the direction of our Python and Bazel-based polyglot monorepo strategy
- You’ll partner closely with engineers across the Infra org, AI/ML community, Developer Platform, and broader Airbnb engineering community to reduce friction in daily development workflows — from source control and build systems to IDE responsiveness and code review tooling
- Responsible for building the technical strategy and evolving Airbnb’s developer infrastructure that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost
- Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities. Your customers will be all engineers at Airbnb
- A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
- Deliver frameworks and platforms that are secure, efficient, mature and highly available that abstract away infrastructure complexity
- Work with other talented and friendly infrastructure engineers to build the foundation for Airbnb’s technical growth over the next decade
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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