Airbnb · 23 hours ago
Senior Backend Engineer, GraphQL
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$191K/yr - $225K/yr
6+ years expAirbnb is a global platform that connects hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Viaduct team. This role involves enhancing the developer experience by finalizing and launching the Viaduct Modern project, which significantly improves the platform's performance and reliability for engineers at Airbnb.
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Responsibilities
Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap as well as taking on metrics and tracing scaling challenges that push the boundaries of our existing observability infrastructure
Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
Developing technical expertise in Viaduct framework as well as informed with product teams’ use cases and requests
Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers and ensuring that their code gets deployed daily to production
Get into the flow during daily and intentional Focus Time blocks
Qualification
Required
6+ years of experience in a relevant role - ideally in a team that owned a developer platform
Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
Experience operating critical online backend services
Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
Preferred
Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL
Strong preference: expertise with Kotlin
Strong preference: expertise with AI-enabled development flows
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
Recent News
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