Staff Engineer, Service Framework at Airbnb

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. Airbnbs various functions embody the companys innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.The Difference You Will Make:The Service Framework teams mission is to provide the runtime for online JVM applications that are on the realtime serving path and the interface for backend developers to interact with the runtime. When things are going well developers at Airbnb who are working on the real-time serving path should not have to think about the runtime. It should work seamlessly while keeping Airbnb reliable cost-efficient and secure. As a senior engineer on this team you will become a steward of our backend monorepo responsible for projects such as service IDL optimization integration testing tooling and programming model support (e.g. sync/async).A Typical Day:As an engineer on Service Framework you will work on technologies that help shape an industry-leading end to end developer experience for backend this role you will be:Building test frameworks to improve the confidence in rolling out large runtime changesPartnering with Airbnbs performance team to improve cost efficiencyModernizing our monorepo to use the latest versions of 3rd party languages and librariesHelping to shape the technical strategy that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience Developer Velocity Debuggability Resilience and Reliability)Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities. Your customers will be all engineers at Airbnb.A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality commitment to craft and operational excellenceYour Expertise:Experience working on distributed systems API design and concurrencyExtensive JVM experienceBonus points for any of the following: instrumentation/telemetry cloud (especially AWS) cost efficiency L7 networking service mesh libraries serialization or developer toolingWant to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impactLove collaborating via product reviews code reviews and architecture discussionsAre motivated to improve their teammates productivityAre excited to join an impactful infrastructure teamMinimum Requirements:9 years industry experienceBachelors and/or Masters degree preferably in CS or equivalent experienceProficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C/etc.)Experienced in architectural patterns of a high-scale distributed products/services such as well-designed APIs data pipelines and efficient algorithmsExperience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design product and data science partnersYour Location:This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible you must live in a state where Airbnb Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement and allow us to attract creatively-led people and to develop the best products services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application please contact us at: . Please include your full name the role youre applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.Required Experience:Staff IC Key Skills Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C/C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems Employment Type : Full-Time Experience: years Vacancy: 1