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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

Airbnb · Remote · Remote

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About Airbnb

Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
  • 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
  • Culture, Influence and Team Leadership
  • Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proactive approach to seeing patterns and opportunities to increase leverage and tooling
More about this role

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.

We are a community based on connection and belonging - a community that was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million hosts who have welcomed over 1.4 billion guest arrivals to over 100,000 cities and towns in almost every country and region across the globe. Hosts on Airbnb are everyday people who share their worlds to provide guests with the feeling of connection and being at home. We strive to connect people and places.

Airbnb has five stakeholders and is designed with all of them in mind. Along with employees and shareholders, we serve hosts, guests, and the communities in which they live. We intend to make long-term decisions considering all of our stakeholders because their collective success is key for our business to thrive.

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