Airbnb · 2 days ago
Staff Software Engineer, Performance
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$204K/yr - $255K/yr
10+ years expAirbnb is a global hospitality company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. The Staff Software Engineer in Performance will work on optimizing performance across the backend stack and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance infrastructure efficiency and reduce operating costs.
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Responsibilities
Work closely with cost and performance cross-functional partners and engineers across all teams at Airbnb to optimize the performance and the operating cost of our infrastructure
Work with our largest services to optimize their performance through profiling, analysis and tuning
Build distributed performance tooling to constantly collect performance data and develop automation to surface performance bottlenecks
Lead continuous load testing in production to determine performance bottlenecks and vulnerabilities of airbnb.com
Work on production performance issues to minimize latency for our customers
Work to modernize Airbnb’s software stack touching every layer
Build infrastructure to deploy the latest hardware to our AWS Kubernetes clusters in order to minimize their footprint
Qualification
Required
10+ years of relevant performance optimization industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
A working knowledge of processor vectorization activation for various COTS applications
Deep software tuning and optimization experience, Java preferred but other major languages such as C++ acceptable
Expertise in using metrics to uncover performance issues
Familiarity with system hardware as it pertains to performance
Familiarity with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2)
Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
Strong problem solver and have solid performance debugging skills
Experience of load testing software either in production or through benchmarking
Passionate about efficiency and performance
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits
Company
Airbnb
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.44BKey Investors
VERSO CapitalJP Morgan ChaseFirstMark
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B
Leadership Team
Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder / Chief Strategy Officer
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