Senior Software Engineer, Airbnb
Core Services, Auth Infra
$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
- Experience working on distributed systems and evaluating trade-offs
- An ideal candidate should be proficient in Java to be most effective in their role
- Experience working in Authorization systems is a plus
- Proficient in technical communication - writing design docs, presenting in design reviews, writing effective post-mortems, etc
- Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
- Are motivated to contribute to a good team culture
- Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team
What the job involves
- Auth Infrastructure: This team is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure around Airbnb’s authorization systems. Authorization systems manage permissions for all Airbnb platform products and services, both for internal and external communities
- These systems provide developers at Airbnb with a robust and scalable framework to ensure secure and controlled access, enabling the creation of trustworthy applications
- A Typical Day:
- This engineer will work on distributed systems with focus in the domain of authorization, that have higher reliability and security requirements than most backend systems or services
- The systems owned by the team have a large number of critical services, and any downtime across these services can result in a hard downtime for the Airbnb platform
- In addition, the team collaborates closely with the product and infra engineering teams to build new features and evolve the systems to meet the engineering challenges as the business is growing and evolving
- Designing and implementing in distributed systems. The role is very hands-on and requires expertise in designing significant parts of the authorization systems, implementing core features in collaboration with other team members, formulating well-thought out rollout and testing plans, and being able to participate in team’s on call
- Maintaining and debugging existing authorization systems. This could involve fixing bugs, improving test coverage, improving performance, contributing to production excellence, adding new features, code reviews and creating dashboards for better observability into the systems
- Providing technical support to other engineers and developers. This could involve answering questions, debugging code, or helping to troubleshoot problems. Partner with stakeholders to understand their feature requests, design, implement and ship them as per expectations
- Staying up-to-date on the latest security threats and trends. This could involve reading security blogs, attending conferences, or taking security courses
- Collaborating within and broadly across the Airbnb tech community. Working with other engineers on Airbnb wide initiatives, collaborating with external teams - partners and stakeholders, and ensuring that team success makes Airbnb platform and community successful
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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