Senior Software Engineer, Dev Tools

Airbnb

Posted 1mo ago

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Design, build, and operate foundational systems
Work on infrastructure problems involving distributed systems, Kubernetes, developer workflows, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
Shape the technical direction and set the bar for craft
Build and operate cloud development environments and execution platforms
Scale Kubernetes-based worker pools, control planes, and APIs
Improve AirDev validation
Strengthen source-control and code-review systems
Improve developer workflows
Diagnose production issues across distributed systems, networking, storage, and orchestration
Set technical direction and make high-stakes architectural decisions
Mentor engineers on the team and raise the quality bar

5-9+ years of industry experience
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects
Full-cycle developer with strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems
Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Excellent communication skills
Strong problem solver and solid debugging skills
Passionate about developer productivity
Experience building systems that run reliably at scale on AWS
Experience with EKS, EC2, EBS, and cloud networking (VPCs, load balancers, VPN tunneling)
Experience building infrastructure that other teams build products on top of
Treat infrastructure spending as a first-class concern
Experience driving meaningful cost reduction through architectural changes

Experience with agent or async workloads
Experience with developer tooling
Experience in developer environments, remote development platforms, or sandboxed workload execution
Infrastructure for AI agents or asynchronous compute workloads
CI/CD, integration testing, build systems, or pre-submit validation
Git, GitHub Enterprise, source-control infrastructure, or large-scale repository hosting
Code-review systems, policy enforcement, code ownership, or automated review tooling
Kubernetes operators, workload scheduling, autoscaling, resource isolation, or capacity management
Bazel, monorepo tooling, dependency management, or polyglot build infrastructure
Platform APIs, control planes, worker pools, caching systems, or distributed queues
Authentication, authorization, secrets management, or secure workload execution
Infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning

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