Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

Overview

Lead enterprise-wide Site Reliability Engineering strategy and architecture as a hands-on Senior Staff Software Engineer. Improve the reliability, performance, availability, and operability of Airbnb’s infrastructure and products.

What you'll do

• Develop a long-term reliability roadmap and advise organizational stakeholders.
• Design and influence company-wide SRE architecture, standards, and engineering practices.
• Create scalable incident management processes and reduce operational toil.
• Develop production readiness standards and automate reliability controls.
• Implement reliable design patterns and proactively mitigate future failures.
• Partner with engineering teams on large-scale distributed-system design and implementation.
• Mentor and lead Site Reliability Engineers through technical leadership and support.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Significant experience in system architecture and design for consumer-facing technology companies.
• 5+ years as a senior-level technical lead or architect.
• Experience driving technical direction across multiple teams or projects.
• Expertise building and scaling highly available systems and platforms.
• Deep understanding of multi-cloud environments.
• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

Details

• Remote role.
• Salary range: $244,000–$305,000 USD yearly.