Staff Software Engineer, Core Services

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 Core Services team provides common application building blocks that are widely applicable across Airbnb engineering. We are responsible for horizontally identifying, building, and operating domains that enable product and platform engineering teams to innovate and support the Airbnb business strategy. 

A Typical Day: 

This engineer will work on distributed systems with focus on building and maintaining high scale services that are production facing and in the critical path of user requests. The systems owned by the team have a large number of critical services, and any downtime across these services can result in a hard downtime for the Airbnb platform. In addition, the team collaborates closely with the product and infra engineering teams to build new features and evolve the systems to meet the engineering challenges as the business is growing and evolving.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include

• Designing and implementing in distributed systems. The role is very hands-on and requires expertise in designing significant parts of the production services and systems, implementing core features in collaboration with other team members, formulate well-thought out rollout and testing plans, and be able to participate in team’s on call.
• Maintaining and debugging existing systems. This could involve fixing bugs, improving test coverage, improving performance, contributing to production excellence, adding new features, code reviews and creating dashboards for better observability into the systems.
• Providing technical support to other engineers and developers. This could involve answering questions, debugging code, or helping to troubleshoot problems. Partner with stakeholders to understand their feature requests, design, implement and ship them as per expectations.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest trends and evolutions. This could involve reading blogs, taking courses, reading research articles, and thinking about the ideal system state, and which technologies are best suited to enable us to move to that state.

Collaborating within and broadly across the Airbnb tech community. Working with other engineers on Airbnb wide initiatives, collaborating with external teams - partners and stakeholders, and ensuring that team success makes Airbnb platform and community successful.

Your Expertise:

• Experience working on distributed systems and evaluating trade-offs
• An ideal candidate should be proficient in Java to be most effective in their role. 
• Proficient in technical communication - writing design docs, presenting in design reviews, writing effective post-mortems from security incidents, etc.
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
• Are motivated to contribute to a good team culture
• Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team 

Benefits:

• Stock
• Competitive salaries
• Quarterly employee travel coupon
• Paid time off
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Fitness Discounts
• 401K
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Apple equipment
• Commuter Subsidies
• Community Involvement (4 hours per month to give back to the community)
• Company sponsored tech talks and happy hours
• Much more…

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