Staff Engineer, Service Framework

Airbnb • San Francisco, CA

12d • Remote

About The Position

The Community You Will Join: Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company. The Difference You Will Make: The Service Framework team’s mission is to provide the runtime for online JVM applications that are on the realtime serving path, and the interface for backend developers to interact with the runtime. When things are going well, developers at Airbnb who are working on the real-time serving path should not have to think about the runtime. It should work seamlessly while keeping Airbnb reliable, cost-efficient, and secure. As a senior engineer on this team, you will become a steward of our backend monorepo, responsible for projects such as service IDL optimization, integration testing tooling, and programming model support (e.g., sync/async). A Typical Day: As an engineer on Service Framework, 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 test frameworks to improve the confidence in rolling out large runtime changes Partnering with Airbnb’s performance team to improve cost efficiency Modernizing our monorepo to use the latest versions of 3rd party languages and libraries Helping to shape the technical strategy that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) 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

• 9+ 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
• Experience working on distributed systems, API design, and concurrency
• Extensive JVM experience

Nice To Haves

• instrumentation/telemetry
• cloud (especially AWS) cost efficiency
• L7 networking
• service mesh
• libraries
• serialization
• developer tooling
• 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 test frameworks to improve the confidence in rolling out large runtime changes
• Partnering with Airbnb’s performance team to improve cost efficiency
• Modernizing our monorepo to use the latest versions of 3rd party languages and libraries
• Helping to shape the technical strategy that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability)
• Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities.
• A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees