Airbnb · 1 day ago
Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (Compute)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$244K/yr - $305K/yr
12+ years expAirbnb is a leading platform for unique stays and experiences, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for their Cloud Infrastructure Compute team. This role involves providing technical leadership for the lifecycle management of the Airbnb Kubernetes compute platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security while enhancing the engineering experience across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects
Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform
Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines
Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve Airbnb’s Cloud Platform
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the Airbnb compute platform
Qualification
Required
BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2)
Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
Kubernetes Experience is required
Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience
Preferred
Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Recent News
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