Senior Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Reliability Engineering
$244-304k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$244-304k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies
- Strong leadership skills, with 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect, driving the technical direction and strategy across multiple teams or projects
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations
- Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms, with a deep understanding of multi-cloud environments
What the job involves
- Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Staff Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team
- The Sr. Staff Engineer is a key member of the technical team who will help facilitate a best-in-class enterprise-wide SRE program that enables the business
- Staff Engineer is a key member of the technical team who will help facilitate a best-in-class enterprise-wide SRE program that enables the business
- They will be responsible for driving the continued development of a long-term Reliability strategy and for ensuring the overall performance and reliability of Airbnb’s infrastructure and products
- Additionally, they will work closely with engineering teams to provide tools, processes, and expertise to make services easy to operate and as reliable as possible
- As a senior technical individual contributor, the Sr. Staff Engineer will bring a unique skill set and experience to the organization, and work to solve broader technical challenges around infrastructure
- They will lend expertise to specific teams and deep dive into projects as needed
- Even at a senior level, all Software Engineers at Airbnb are expected to be hands on and contribute code and/or be involved in the architecture/design
- Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner within the organization
- Design, implement and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards
- Create incident management processes that can scale with the organization as it continues its rapid growth. Assess how the organization manages incidents and responds to them; reduce operational toil stemming from incident management
- Foster the SRE/Reliability model that takes into consideration the nuances of an engineering culture that has a great sense of ownership over their services
- Bring a strong customer focus to the Reliability function, centered on optimizing the infrastructure and platform, and ensuring systems are highly available and performant
- Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability. Automate as much as possible and always configure as code. Predict future failures and work proactively to mitigate them. Advocate and implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, etc.)
- Culture, Influence and Team Leadership
- Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proactive approach to seeing patterns and opportunities to increase leverage and tooling
- Build deep partnerships with engineering leaders. Work closely with product engineering teams on design and implementation choices of large-scale distributed systems
- Partner with the broader organization to learn from incidents through a blameless post mortem process
- Mentor and lead other Site Reliability Engineers. Uplevel and support others with servant leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship
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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