Senior Staff Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure, Compute

September 25

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Airbnb

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B2C • eCommerce • Hospitality

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

📋 Description

• Technical leader for the lifecycle management of Airbnb's Kubernetes compute platform • Enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience • Provide reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure and product teams • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers • Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of the 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.

🎯 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. • Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred. • Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. • US - Remote Eligible; the role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. • Disability inclusive application and interview process and reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.