Staff Software Engineer, Media Foundation

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:

We are building Airbnb’s next-gen Media infrastructure to help unlock a whole slew of immersive product features. As part of the Application Foundation Org, you collaborate with your team to build and improve the foundation that powers products across Airbnb.

The Difference You Will Make:

As the Media Foundation Staff Backend Engineer, you work in a team of talented & diverse software engineers to build & operate Airbnb’s Media infrastructure. You play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, efficient and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb. 

A Typical Day: 

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
• You will ideate and prototype solutions that address concerns that are unique to the Airbnb Media hosting and media processing. 

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• You possess strong software skills in Java.
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering, product & design organizations 
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Experience working with image processing or content video transcoding .
• Experience working with a microservice architecture at scale is a plus.

How We'll Take Care of You:

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