Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (Compute)

Airbnb

99d • $244,000 - $305,000

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. At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering and operating the foundational platforms and cloud environment that power Airbnb. As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you’ll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Airbnb Kubernetes compute platform. You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience. This compute platform is the foundation for all of the features that Cloud Infrastructure delivers in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency. Your team will provide the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams to deliver enhancements to the platform and product teams to deliver first class experiences to Airbnb Guests and Hosts around the world.

Requirements

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure.
• 4+ 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

• Istio/Envoy 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.
• Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve Airbnb’s Cloud Platform.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the Airbnb compute platform.

Benefits

• Base pay range of $244,000—$305,000 USD, dependent on factors such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands.
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees