Senior Staff Engineer, Airbnb
Cloud Infrastructure, Compute
$244-305k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$244-305k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
- 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2)
- Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
- Kubernetes Experience is required
- Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience
What the job involves
- As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you’ll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Airbnb Kubernetes compute platform
- You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience
- This compute platform is the foundation for all of the features that Cloud Infrastructure delivers in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency
- This compute platform ensures the consistency required to enable delivery across multiple cloud vendors
- Your peers will rely on you to provide a quality platform that makes it easy to deliver quality features to our product teams across Airbnb
- Your team will provide the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams to deliver enhancements to the platform and product teams to deliver first class experiences to Airbnb Guests and Hosts around the world
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
- Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform
- Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve Airbnb’s Cloud Platform
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the Airbnb compute platform
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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