Role details
- Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.
- Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
- At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
- Operating within the Cloud Infrastructure organization, the Cloud Experience team builds and maintains the foundational cloud platform experience that powers operations across Airbnb.
- We focus on developing intuitive interfaces that enable engineers to efficiently construct and manage services and platforms without worrying about underlying infrastructure.
- We unify infra capabilities into streamlined self-serve workflows to achieve consistent experience for all developers.
The Difference You Will Make:
- As a Senior Software Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure team, you will be at the forefront of developing the AI-native infrastructure platform that supports all teams across Airbnb.
- Your primary focus will be building interfaces and agent-driven capabilities that help engineers provision and manage services throughout their lifecycle.
- This work spans developer APIs and CLIs; Kubernetes infrastructure and cloud automation; smart scheduling and autoscaling; multi-region capabilities and integrations with identity and security systems and the service mesh.
- You will partner with teams across Airbnb to deliver on the next generation of cloud capabilities for advancing our platforms supporting AI and ML workloads .
- With a global user base, our team's core values emphasize reliability, security, developer experience, efficiency, and scalability.
A Typical Day:
- Deliver secure, efficient, and highly available frameworks and platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity, while optimizing and enhancing existing systems to strengthen availability, boost efficiency, and adapt to an AI-native world.
- Develop APIs and tools enabling Airbnb engineers to simplify service management and provisioning while securely scaling platform enhancements.
- Use and extend open source projects such as Kubernetes and Argo CD. Contribute improvements upstream when they benefit the broader community.
- Create agent-driven workflows with clear change previews and validation.
- Work with service owners and partner teams to identify confusing workflows and improve them.
- Debug production issues and improve the reliability and visibility of the systems you own.
Your Expertise:
- A degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces such as APIs, CLIs or declarative configuration at large scale.
- Deep understanding in some of these: Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infra automations, public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering teams.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills.
Ways to Stand Out
- Experience building AI agents that use tools or APIs and evaluating their behavior.
- Contributions to open source infrastructure projects.
- Experience building Kubernetes controllers.
Your
Location:
This position is US - Remote Eligible.
The role
may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.
- While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.
- Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states.
- This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list.
- If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
- We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.
- If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected] .
- Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
- We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
How We'll Take Care of You:
- Our job titles may span more than one career level.
- The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands.
- The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Pay Range
$196,000 — $230,000 USD
- A few things that will always be true for Airbnb's hiring process: our open roles are posted on Airbnb's Career's Page at careers.airbnb.com, and our recruiters correspond only from @ airbnb.com or @ ext.airbnb.com email addresses.
- Our recruiters will never ask for your Social Security number, bank account details, passport, or payment app information while you are interviewing.
- We'll also never ask you to pay a fee, send money, deposit or cash a check, or purchase work-related equipment (such as a company laptop) during the interview process.
- We encourage candidates to remain vigilant of these recruiting scams and not share sensitive information if you do not believe an individual is actually affiliated with Airbnb.