Staff Software Engineer – Tech Foundations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $212k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Travel • Logistics • eCommerce

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.

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction for a major area of Airbnb's Observability platform and lead it from design through production • Scale the metrics pipeline using OpenTelemetry, vmagent, and Grafana Mimir while controlling costs through aggregation, sampling, and blocking unused metrics • Replace legacy log aggregation with an OpenTelemetry-based pipeline and evolve log and trace storage on OpenSearch • Build a fast, reliable query layer for engineers and AI agents with rate limiting, access control, isolation, and caching • Provide teams with self-service visibility and control over telemetry costs, including unit costs and controls for granularity, sampling, and retention • Improve time to detect through anomaly detection and automated correlation across signals • Lead distributed-systems design and delivery from prototype to production operation • Write tested, readable, maintainable code and contribute to upstream open-source projects • Align roadmaps across Observability and partner infrastructure and product teams • Drive build, buy, and open-source decisions • Explain reliability, cost, and developer-productivity tradeoffs and return on investment to engineering leadership • Mentor engineers and improve design reviews, operational readiness, and on-call practices • Help Airbnb engineers instrument services and self-serve when debugging production issues

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ years of industry experience • Track record of building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production • Experience leading the technical direction of a system or multi-team project end to end • Deep experience in at least one telemetry domain at scale: metrics, logs, or distributed tracing • Strong coding skills in Go or Java/Kotlin • Comfortable working in unfamiliar codebases, including upstream open source • Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and service mesh technologies such as Istio and Envoy • Clear written and verbal communication, including design documents and tradeoff analysis for engineering leadership • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Benefits eligibility • Employee Travel Credits • Remote-eligible work arrangement • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager • Disability accommodations throughout the recruitment process

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