Airbnb

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$204k - $255k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead teams of developers in delivering multi-quarter, cross-functional infrastructure projects.
  • Serve as a technical expert for online data export, storage, caching, or coordination platforms and collaborate with internal product teams.
  • Influence long-term organizational roadmaps, technical strategy, and architecture decisions.
  • Evaluate and incorporate technologies and methodologies to improve data ingestion and infrastructure systems.
  • Mentor and coach engineers while raising technical standards.
  • Identify, debug, and resolve operational issues and participate in the Ingestion team’s on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of relevant industry experience.
  • Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and developing engineers.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure, including architecting and scaling high-performance, business-critical systems.
  • Ability to collaborate across teams and organizations and build alignment on technical strategy.
  • Strong judgment when balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
  • Experience navigating broad, complex codebases and enabling others to do so.

Benefits

  • US remote eligible, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with the manager; employees must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.
  • May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
  • Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaMySQLRedis

Categories

BackendData Engineering
Airbnb

About Airbnb

10,000+ employees

Airbnb operates a global online marketplace that connects hosts offering homes, rooms, and unique properties with travelers seeking short-term stays and experiences. The company earns revenue primarily through service fees on bookings; founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ABNB) with over 5 million hosts and guest arrivals recorded in nearly every country.

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