Staff Software Engineer, Events Logging

Airbnb

1d•$212,000 - $265,000

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. As a member of a diverse and distributed team, you’ll draw on deep backend expertise to drive the technical direction of event logging at Airbnb — owning initiatives that span our logging platform and shaping where it goes next. You’ll partner with and influence teams across the company to identify the highest-impact opportunities in the logging space, set a clear technical vision, and guide its delivery through products and tooling that change how every team produces and consumes event data.

Requirements

9+ years of industry engineering experience
Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
Deep expertise in one or more backend/server languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++) and a track record of architecting high-traffic backend systems
Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems
Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for software development.
Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Collaborate with a wide variety of partner teams to understand their pain points, prototype proposed solutions, and drive adoption of logging products and tooling.
Own the technical direction and roadmap for a major area of the logging platform, aligning it with broader organizational priorities.
Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
Create and present design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, particularly in the logging and observability space.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.