Software Engineer, CI Platform Infrastructure

at Airbnb

📍 United States

USD 162,000-190,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Remote

Tech Stack
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3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

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Debugging Distributed Systems @ 3 Docker @ 3 Experimentation Go Kubernetes Observability

Experimentation and prototyping new features in a remote sandbox development environment to enable new capabilities in CI-related workflows.
Debugging workflow orchestration queueing delays and measuring the performance of remote execution/cache infrastructure to improve correctness, reproducibility, and speed.
Identifying root causes of infrastructure-related reasons for test flakiness in CI.
Optimizing the speed of autoscaling CI workers to handle burst CI workloads from product engineering teams.
Up-leveling observability and alerting of the CI platform across build systems, flaky test management systems, and the merge queue.
Building an improved canarying mechanism to roll out workflow orchestration changes iteratively and safely.

Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
Interest in working on distributed systems engineering and optimization problems.
General knowledge of most of: k8s, EC2, Golang, Docker.
Metrics-driven approach to decision-making, with an interest in delivering quantifiable impact.