Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Reliability Engineering
$204-259k
More information about location
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$204-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- This aspect of your work will require not just strong technical acumen, but also excellent communication and coordination skills, resilience under pressure, and a firm commitment to our culture of blamelessness and continuous learning
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering or SRE roles, with a focus on large scale distributed systems
- Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, such as Java, Python, or Go
- Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
- Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform
- Strong conviction in software development best practices, including version control, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a strong attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering team
- As a Staff Software Engineer in SRE, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the tools and systems that enable our engineering teams to operate our services reliably and at scale
- You will work closely with our SREs and other engineering teams to ensure our services are properly instrumented and able to scale with our growing business
- In this role, your expertise in developing and maintaining tools and systems will be instrumental in bolstering our services' reliability and improving how the company manages incidents broadly
- By collaborating closely with other engineering teams you will help establish a culture of reliability throughout the organization by providing a comprehensive incident management platform that is being used for instrumentation, operability, and around incidents
- Your ability to identify opportunities for improvement and drive their implementation will contribute significantly to our overall operational efficiency and growth, ensuring that our services remain resilient as our business continues to expand
- Additionally, as an essential part of this role, you will serve as an active member of our first responder SRE team, responding to and managing high severity incidents
- Your vast technical experience and leadership skills will be invaluable as you step into the role of Incident Commander during these critical events
- You will guide cross-functional teams during crisis situations and ensure timely resolution, minimizing the impact on our customers and business
- Design, implement and maintain the tools and systems that support service reliability, monitoring, and alerting
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability in mind, and provide guidance on the appropriate use of tooling and automation
- Identify opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our services and drive their implementation
- Work with SREs to understand the challenges they face in operating our services and develop tools and systems to help them manage these challenges
- Participate in incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues
- Continuously evaluate new technologies and industry best practices to improve our SRE tooling and incident response procedures
- Gain and maintain an intimate understanding of how the critical parts of the site work (services, infrastructure, tooling, and processes)
- Lead high-urgency incident management and mentor less-experienced team members in effectively handling incidents
- Contribute to better incident retrospectives, driving improvements in our overall reliability and incident response time
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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