# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $244,000-$305,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join their Site Reliability Engineering team.

The Senior Staff Engineer is a key member of the technical team who will help facilitate a best-in-class enterprise-wide SRE program that enables the business. They will be responsible for driving the continued development of a long-term Reliability strategy and for ensuring the overall performance and reliability of Airbnb's infrastructure and products.

Responsibilities:

- Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner within the organization.

- Design, implement and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards.

- Create incident management processes that can scale with the organization as it continues its rapid growth.

- Foster the SRE/Reliability model that takes into consideration the nuances of an engineering culture that has a great sense of ownership over their services.

- Bring a strong customer focus to the Reliability function, centered on optimizing the infrastructure and platform, and ensuring systems are highly available and performant.

- Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability.

- Automate as much as possible and always configure as code.

- Predict future failures and work proactively to mitigate them.

- Advocate and implement reliable design patterns.

- Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proactive approach to seeing patterns and opportunities to increase leverage and tooling.

- Build deep partnerships with engineering leaders.

- Work closely with product engineering teams on design and implementation choices of large-scale distributed systems.

- Partner with the broader organization to learn from incidents through a blameless post mortem process.

- Mentor and lead other Site Reliability Engineers.

Requirements:

- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience.

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies.

- Strong leadership skills, with 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect, driving the technical direction and strategy across multiple teams or projects.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations.

- Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms, with a deep understanding of multi-cloud environments.

We offer a salary range of $244,000-$305,000 USD, and this role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

## Skills

### Required
- system architecture
- software engineering
- leadership
- communication
- collaboration
- high-availability systems
- multi-cloud environments

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