Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (Compute)

Details

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join

At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering and operating the foundational platforms and cloud environment that power Airbnb.

Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s end user community and regularly meets with peer companies to discuss cloud native engineering challenges at scale.

Role overview

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you’ll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Airbnb Kubernetes compute platform. You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience. This compute platform is the foundation for features delivered across security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency, and ensures consistency to enable delivery across multiple cloud vendors.

Your team will provide reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams and product teams to deliver first-class experiences to Airbnb Guests and Hosts around the world.

A Typical Day / Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Deliver enhancements that drive cost efficiency of the cloud platform.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve Airbnb’s Cloud Platform.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the Airbnb compute platform.

Requirements / Your Expertise

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure.
• 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure-as-a-service offering (e.g., EC2).
• Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams.
• Kubernetes experience is required.
• Istio / Envoy experience is preferred.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality, and developer experience.

Location / Work Model

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager. While Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Offices: United States.

Compensation

Base pay range: $244,000—$305,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. The actual base pay depends on factors such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands.

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 provide a disability-inclusive application and interview process. If you require reasonable accommodation to submit an application, contact [email protected] with your name, the role, and the accommodation needed.