30 applicants

Company

Airbnb · 8 hours ago

Sr Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering

Remote - USA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$244K/yr - $304K/yr

12+ years exp

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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.

Assess how the organization manages incidents and responds to them; reduce operational toil stemming from incident management.

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.

Predict future failures and work proactively to mitigate them.

Advocate and implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, etc.).

Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proactive approach to seeing patterns and opportunities to increase leverage and tooling.

Build deep partnerships with engineering leaders.

Work closely with product engineering teams on design and implementation choices of large-scale distributed systems.

Partner with the broader organization to learn from incidents through a blameless post mortem process.

Mentor and lead other Site Reliability Engineers.

Uplevel and support others with servant leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship.

Qualification

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Site Reliability EngineeringSystem ArchitectureHigh-availability SystemsMulti-cloud EnvironmentsIncident ManagementConfiguration as CodeCollaboration Skills

Required

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.

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Employee Travel Credits

Company

Airbnb

Glassdoor

4.3

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the internet.

Founded in 2008

San Francisco, California, USA

5,001-10,000 employees

http://www.airbnb.com

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