Senior Full Stack Engineer, Events Logging

Airbnb

1d•$196,000 - $230,000

About The Position

The event logging team owns Airbnb’s platform for capturing user activity events, from page views and searches to backend events, across every client and backend service. We turn raw user activity logs into high-quality data that is available both near-real-time and long-term, and we're building on top of that platform to enable a seamless experience for nearly every engineering team at Airbnb to produce and consume event data.

Requirements

5+ years of industry engineering experience
Strong communication and organizational skills with cross-functional teams
Proficiency in modern frontend technologies—including HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, frameworks like React or Angular, and frontend architecture (build tools, reusable components).
Expertise in one or more backend/server languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++, etc.) and experience designing and scaling high-quality, high-traffic backend services
Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth

Nice To Haves

Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in event logging and observability, preferred

Responsibilities

Work with partner teams at Airbnb to understand their pain points, prototype proposed solutions, and drive adoption of logging products and tooling.
Create and present your own design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality, tested pull requests and reviewing other’s designs and code.
Build appropriate tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, particularly in the logging and observability space.