Airbnb

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

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2 months ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$244k - $305k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop a long-term Reliability roadmap and serve as a strategic thought partner across the organization.
  • Design, implement, and influence company-wide SRE architecture, engineering standards, and innovation.
  • Create scalable incident management processes, assess incident response practices, and reduce operational toil.
  • Develop production readiness standards, automate reliability practices, configure systems as code, and proactively mitigate failures.
  • Advocate for reliable design patterns such as circuit breakers and graceful degradation.
  • Partner with engineering leaders and product teams on large-scale distributed-system design and implementation.
  • Use blameless postmortems to help the broader organization learn from incidents.
  • Mentor and lead Site Reliability Engineers through technical leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship.

Requirements

  • BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in system architecture and design at consumer-facing technology companies.
  • 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect driving technical direction and strategy across multiple teams or projects.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Demonstrated expertise building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms.
  • Deep understanding of multi-cloud environments.

Benefits

  • May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
  • Airbnb provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

Categories

Site Reliability
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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