Senior Staff SRE Architect — Enterprise Reliability Leader

Traveltechessentialist; United States; Remote; USD 244,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to join the Site Reliability Engineering team. The role focuses on developing a long-term Reliability strategy and ensuring performance and reliability of Airbnb's infrastructure and products across services.

As a senior technical contributor, you will solve broad infrastructure challenges, partner with engineering teams, and contribute code and architecture/design work, maintaining hands-on involvement at Airbnb.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies.
• Strong leadership skills, with 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect, driving the technical direction and strategy across multiple teams or projects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations.
• Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms, with a deep understanding of multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner within the organization.
• Design, implement and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards.
• Create incident management processes that can scale with the organization as it continues its rapid growth.
• Foster the SRE/Reliability model that takes into consideration the nuances of an engineering culture that has a great sense of ownership over their services.
• Bring a strong customer focus to the Reliability function, centered on optimizing the infrastructure and platform, and ensuring systems are highly available and performant.
• Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability. Automate as much as possible and always configure as code.
• Mentor and lead other Site Reliability Engineers. Uplevel and support others with servant leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

High availability

Multi-cloud

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or equivalent

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to join the Site Reliability Engineering team. The role focuses on developing a long-term Reliability strategy and ensuring performance and reliability of Airbnb's infrastructure and products across services.

As a senior technical contributor, you will solve broad infrastructure challenges, partner with engineering teams, and contribute code and architecture/design work, maintaining hands-on involvement at Airbnb.