Senior Full Stack Engineer, Airbnb
Event Logging
$196-230k
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$196-230k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry engineering experience
- Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in event logging and observability, preferred
- Strong communication and organizational skills with cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in modern frontend technologies—including HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, frameworks like React or Angular, and frontend architecture (build tools, reusable components)
- Expertise in one or more backend/server languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++, etc.) and experience designing and scaling high-quality, high-traffic backend services
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
What the job involves
- The event logging team owns Airbnb’s platform for capturing user activity events, from page views and searches to backend events, across every client and backend service. We turn raw user activity logs into high-quality data that is available both near-real-time and long-term, and we're building on top of that platform to enable a seamless experience for nearly every engineering team at Airbnb to produce and consume event data
- As a member of a diverse and distributed team, you’ll be expected to leverage your expertise in both frontend and backend development to play a key role in building products that accelerate event logging at Airbnb. You will work closely with our partner teams to identify new opportunities in the logging space, then design and implement improvements to products and tooling that have a meaningful impact on the way teams produce and consume logs
- Work with partner teams at Airbnb to understand their pain points, prototype proposed solutions, and drive adoption of logging products and tooling
- Create and present your own design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
- Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality, tested pull requests and reviewing other’s designs and code
- Build appropriate tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, particularly in the logging and observability space
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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