Software Engineer, API Infrastructure

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

The Core Services team provides common application building blocks that are widely applicable across Airbnb engineering. We are responsible for horizontally identifying, building, and operating domains that enable product and platform engineering teams to innovate and support the Airbnb business strategy. 

In this role, you will be responsible for some of the most critical services at Airbnb like dynamic configuration, async job processing system, frontdoor systems, etc. The skills critical in the role are able to gather good understanding of Airbnb’s service oriented architecture and underlying observability, design and implement solutions that may encompass multiple systems, with a focus towards reliability, simplicity, and efficiency and be able to collaborate with multiple teams.

The Difference You Will Make:

This engineer will work on distributed systems with focus on building and maintaining high scale services that are production facing and in the critical path of user requests. The systems owned by the team have a large number of critical services, and any downtime across these services can result in a hard downtime for the Airbnb platform. In addition, the team collaborates closely with the product and infra engineering teams to build new features and evolve the systems to meet the engineering challenges as the business is growing and evolving.

A Typical Day: 

• Designing and implementing distributed systems. The role is very hands-on and requires expertise in designing significant parts of the production services and systems, implementing core features in collaboration with other team members, formulating well-thought out rollout and testing plans, and participating in team’s on call.
• Maintaining and debugging existing systems. This could involve fixing bugs, improving test coverage, improving performance, contributing to production excellence, adding new features, code reviews and creating dashboards for better observability into the systems.
• Providing technical support to other engineers and developers. This could involve answering questions, debugging code, or helping to troubleshoot problems. Partner with stakeholders to understand their feature requests, design, implement and ship them as per expectations.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest trends and evolutions. This could involve reading blogs, taking courses, reading research articles, and thinking about the ideal system state, and which technologies are best suited to enable us to move to that state.
• Collaborating within and broadly across the Airbnb tech community. Working with other engineers on Airbnb wide initiatives, collaborating with external teams - partners and stakeholders, and ensuring that team success makes Airbnb platform and community successful.

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Experience working on distributed systems and evaluating trade-offs
• Proficiency in Java, micro-services, observability systems, debugging distributed and multi-threaded systems
• Proficiency in technical communication - writing design docs, presenting in design reviews, writing effective post-mortems from security incidents, etc.
• Effectiveness in collaborating within and outside the team via code reviews and architecture discussions
• Motivated to contribute to a positive team culture and building belonging together
• Excited to join an impactful infrastructure team 

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.