# Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations at Airbnb

- Company: Airbnb
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: http://www.airbnb.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/8334372?gh_jid=8334372&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airbnb-staff-software-engineer-tech-foundations/

## About the role

As a Staff engineer, you will set the technical direction for a major area of the Observability platform and lead it from design through production. Problems in front of us include: We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Scaling the metrics pipeline (OpenTelemetry, vmagent, Grafana Mimir) while controlling cost through aggregation, sampling, and blocking unused metrics
- Replacing legacy log aggregation with an OpenTelemetry-based pipeline, and evolving log and trace storage on OpenSearch
- Building a fast, reliable query layer for both engineers and AI agents, with rate limiting, access control, isolation, and caching so agent traffic does not slow down incident response
- Giving teams self-service visibility and control over their telemetry cost: unit cost per team and service, and controls for granularity, sampling, and retention
- Improving time to detect with anomaly detection and automated correlation across signals
- Lead the design and delivery of distributed systems that handle tens of millions of events per second, from prototype to production operation

Tags: Software Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airbnb-staff-software-engineer-tech-foundations/