Senior Software Engineer, Dev Tools

Airbnb; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 75.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Global travel and medical insurance

Employee Travel Credits

Bonus and equity opportunities

Zusammenfassung

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Engineer for their Dev Tools team who will design, build, and operate foundational systems for the engineering department. The role involves addressing challenging infrastructure problems related to scalability and cost efficiency.

Your expertise in distributed systems and Kubernetes will be essential for driving improvements that benefit every engineer at Airbnb. You'll collaborate with various teams to enhance developer workflows and operational efficiency.

Qualifikationen

• 5–9+ years of industry experience and/or relevant academic experience.
• Strong ownership and experience in high-scale distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-team alignment.

Aufgaben

• Build and operate cloud development environments for engineers.
• Scale Kubernetes-based worker pools and APIs for parallel workloads.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality bar through code reviews.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud infrastructure

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Python

Go

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

CI/CD tools

Jobbeschreibung

You will be redirected to Airbnb to apply.

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.

The Community You Will Join:

Dev Tools’ mission is to help Airbnb engineers and AI agents build, validate, review, and ship high-quality software quickly, reliably, and safely.

AI-assisted development is rapidly increasing the speed, volume, and concurrency of software delivery. Our team is building the infrastructure needed to support that growth – from cloud development environments and agent execution platforms to source control, code review, validation, and polyglot monorepo tooling.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a senior engineer on Dev Tools, you will design, build, and operate foundational systems used across Airbnb engineering. You will work on technically challenging infrastructure problems involving distributed systems, Kubernetes, developer workflows, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency, while partnering closely with teams across Developer Platform, DevAI, CI/CD, Cloud Infrastructure, and Security. You won’t just build – you’ll shape the technical direction and set the bar for craft on a small, high‑impact team.

High leverage: Every improvement you make is felt by every engineer at Airbnb – plus the AI agents running on behalf of those engineers.

Greenfield platform work: The async agent execution platform is nascent. You’ll be making foundational decisions about how it scales, not inheriting someone else’s choices.

Clear business stakes: Our cloud workspace costs nearly doubled in Q1 as agentic usage surged. The tradeoff between developer productivity and infrastructure spend is real, visible, and yours to influence.

Small team, big scope: This is not a large‑org role where your contribution gets diffused. The team is intentionally lean – your work ships and your decisions matter.

A Typical Day:

• Build and operate cloud development environments and execution platforms for engineers and AI agents.
• Scale Kubernetes‑based worker pools, control planes, and APIs for parallel and asynchronous workloads.
• Improve AirDev validation so engineers and agents can test changes quickly before CI.
• Strengthen source‑control and code review systems as PR volume, automation, and concurrency grow.
• Improve developer workflows across build, test, dependency management, and polyglot monorepo tooling.
• Diagnose production issues across distributed systems, networking, storage, and orchestration.
• Set technical direction and make high‑stakes architectural decisions with significant ambiguity.
• Mentor engineers on the team and raise the quality bar through code review and design feedback.

Your Expertise:

• 5‑9+ years of industry experience (and/or relevant academic experience).
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading and shipping large‑scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
• Full‑cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating high‑scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle.
• Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills – you can explain complex infrastructure tradeoffs to engineers at all levels and drive cross‑team alignment without formal authority.
• Strong problem‑solver and solid debugging skills.
• Passionate about developer productivity and making developer lives better.
• Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes: built systems that run reliably at scale on AWS. Knowledge of EKS, EC2, EBS, and cloud networking (VPCs, load balancers, VPN tunneling) and opinions on when each approach is right.
• Platform thinking: built infrastructure that other teams build products on top of. Understand the difference between a working prototype and a platform – reliability, observability, clear contracts, and graceful failure modes.
• Cost and efficiency: treat infrastructure spending as a first‑class concern. Drove meaningful cost reduction through architectural changes, not just right‑size.
• Agent or async workloads (plus): thought about operational characteristics of async, autonomous, or long‑running compute workloads – pooling, lifecycle management, isolation, secret handling.
• Developer tooling (plus): care about the end‑to‑end developer experience. Built or contributed to tools that engineers use daily and understand the difference between technically correct and genuinely usable.
• Go, Python, or similar server‑side languages. Pragmatic – you’ll learn what you need.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in one or more of the following areas is especially valuable:

• 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.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively‑led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [emailprotected] . Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

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.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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