Senior Software Engineer, Service Tools

Airbnb

1d•$196,000 - $230,000•Remote

About The Position

The Service Tools team’s mission is to enable Airbnb backend developers to develop, test, and maintain their code quickly and reliably. This team is responsible for the standard development lifecycle for service owners—everything from AI Integration for service development, to how integration tests work, to building services for deployment. This represents Airbnb’s largest cohort of developers, you will ultimately be responsible for their productivity. As an engineer on Service Tools, you will work on technologies that help shape an industry-leading end to end developer experience for backend developers. In this role you will be: Building our next-gen build system using the latest technologies (e.g., Bazel) Working on integrations between the build system and CI/CD tooling (e.g., merge queues, code coverage, integration testing) Improving the editor (e.g., IntelliJ) experience for all backend developers Helping to shape the technical strategy that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost. Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities. Your customers will be all engineers at Airbnb. A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence

Requirements

6+ years industry experience
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
Experienced in architectural patterns of a high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms
Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners

Nice To Haves

Experience working directly on build systems, and even better if you have hands-on experience with Bazel
Experience working with large monorepos
Extensive JVM experience
Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact
Love collaborating via product reviews, code reviews and architecture discussions
Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team

Responsibilities

Building our next-gen build system using the latest technologies (e.g., Bazel)
Working on integrations between the build system and CI/CD tooling (e.g., merge queues, code coverage, integration testing)
Improving the editor (e.g., IntelliJ) experience for all backend developers
Helping to shape the technical strategy that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost.
Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities. Your customers will be all engineers at Airbnb.
A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence