Principal Software Engineer, Performance

Airbnb

Posted 2mo ago

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Define and drive Airbnb's long-term performance strategy
Lead architecture and development of performance profiling and instrumentation infrastructure
Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure optimal fleet utilization
Connect performance outcomes to business objectives and company-wide SLOs
Evaluate emerging hardware and software technologies
Advise on build vs. buy decisions
Mentor and technically uplevel engineers

12+ years of performance engineering experience in high-scale, high-growth production environments
Deep understanding of how software and hardware systems interact at scale
Architectural patterns for performance-critical stacks
Comfortable in the kernel, in the JVM, and in a post-mortem
Strong familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with profiling and instrumentation tooling across CPU, GPU, memory, and distributed request tracing
Demonstrated ability to define performance objectives and drive delivery against company-wide SLOs across multiple organizations
Experience influencing teams that don't report to you
Experience making the case for long-term investments over short-term fixes
Strong communication and influence skills
Comfortable driving technical direction with senior engineering and product leadership
Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

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