Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Experience

Airbnb, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help shape a cloud experience platform used across the company. You will build AI-native infrastructure, developer APIs, and scalable tooling to provision and manage services, with a focus on reliability, security, and developer experience.

You will work on Kubernetes-based infrastructure, multi-region capabilities, and integrations with identity and security systems, collaborating with teams across Airbnb to enable AI/ML workloads at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces (APIs, CLIs) at large scale.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infra automations, and cloud IaaS offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams; strong debugging skills.
• Contributions to open source infrastructure projects or AI agent experiences are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, scalable cloud infrastructure frameworks and platform capabilities.
• Develop developer-facing APIs and tools for provisioning and managing services.
• Extend and contribute to open-source projects like Kubernetes and Argo CD.
• Create agent-driven workflows with clear previews and validations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve workflows and reliability.
• Debug production issues and improve system observability.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

APIs & CLIs

Kubernetes

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

AI-native infra

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Argo CD

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Experience

United States

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:

At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Operating within the Cloud Infrastructure organization, the Cloud Experience team builds and maintains the foundational cloud platform experience that powers operations across Airbnb. We focus on developing intuitive interfaces that enable engineers to efficiently construct and manage services and platforms without worrying about underlying infrastructure. We unify infra capabilities into streamlined self-serve workflows to achieve consistent experience for all developers.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure team, you will be at the forefront of developing the AI-native infrastructure platform that supports all teams across Airbnb. Your primary focus will be building interfaces and agent-driven capabilities that help engineers provision and manage services throughout their lifecycle. This work spans developer APIs and CLIs; Kubernetes infrastructure and cloud automation; smart scheduling and autoscaling; multi-region capabilities and integrations with identity and security systems and the service mesh. You will partner with teams across Airbnb to deliver on the next generation of cloud capabilities for advancing our platforms supporting AI and ML workloads . With a global user base, our team's core values emphasize reliability, security, developer experience, efficiency, and scalability.

A Typical Day:

• Deliver secure, efficient, and highly available frameworks and platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity, while optimizing and enhancing existing systems to strengthen availability, boost efficiency, and adapt to an AI-native world.
• Develop APIs and tools enabling Airbnb engineers to simplify service management and provisioning while securely scaling platform enhancements.
• Use and extend open source projects such as Kubernetes and Argo CD. Contribute improvements upstream when they benefit the broader community.
• Create agent-driven workflows with clear change previews and validation.
• Work with service owners and partner teams to identify confusing workflows and improve them.
• Debug production issues and improve the reliability and visibility of the systems you own.

Your Expertise:

• A degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces such as APIs, CLIs or declarative configuration at large scale.
• Deep understanding in some of these: Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infra automations, public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills.

Ways to Stand Out

• Experience building AI agents that use tools or APIs and evaluating their behavior.
• Contributions to open source infrastructure projects.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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: [e-mail] . 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.

Pay Range

$196,000 — $230,000 USD

Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.