Senior Software Engineer, AI Compute

Airbnb

7h•$191,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

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 AI Compute team is responsible for delivering and operating the GPU platform and infrastructure that powers AI at Airbnb. Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation’s end user community and regularly meets with peer companies to discuss cloud native engineering challenges at scale.

Requirements

BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
5+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
2+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
Kubernetes Experience is required.

Nice To Haves

ML Infrastructure (LLM fundamentals, tuning, optimization) Experience is preferred.
Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
Drive reliability, cost efficiency and capability enhancements for GPU fleet
Facilitate cross-team alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
Contribute to and execute the multi-year strategy for Airbnb’s AI Compute Platform
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the Airbnb AI Compute Platform