Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Experience Team

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Reliability Experience Team at Airbnb. As a Senior Backend or Fullstack Engineer, you will partner with Reliability, Platform, and Infrastructures teams to build the paved path for Airbnb's current and future internal needs.

Your primary objective will be to make it easier to understand what's happening in production and quickly triage bugs and outages.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Reliability Experience, Incident Management, Observability, and Resiliency teams to design and develop high-quality UX.
• Create high-quality, tested pull requests and review others' designs and code.
• Build tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create and present design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience
• Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in Data or Observability spaces (Prometheus is a plus)
• Strong collaboration with colleagues across multiple timezones
• Fluency in Java, Python or one object-oriented language
• Experience with airbnb.io/visx/ is preferred but not required
• Experience with Grafana and similar solutions is preferred but not required
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Solid engineering and coding skills
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential