Senior Staff Engineer, Performance
Airbnb
about 4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
Senior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$1 - $1/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to optimize performance and operating costs.
- Profile, analyze, and tune performance for large services.
- Develop distributed performance tooling to collect data and identify bottlenecks.
- Lead continuous load testing in production to uncover vulnerabilities.
- Address production performance issues to reduce latency.
- Modernize Airbnb’s software stack across all layers.
- Build infrastructure for deploying the latest hardware in AWS Kubernetes clusters.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in performance optimization in a tech environment.
- Knowledge of processor vectorization for COTS applications.
- Deep experience in software tuning and optimization, preferably in Java.
- Expertise in using metrics to identify performance issues.
- Familiarity with system hardware related to performance.
- Experience with public cloud providers like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Knowledge of container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work across teams.
- Strong problem-solving and performance debugging skills.
- Experience with load testing software in production or benchmarking.
- Passion for efficiency and performance.
Benefits
- Remote eligible position with occasional office work.
- Potential for bonus, equity, and employee travel credits.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureC++DockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetes
Categories
AI & MLBackendData EngineeringDevOpsTesting