Staff Software Engineer, Performance

Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to connect over 5 million hosts with guests worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Performance team, focusing on optimizing performance across their backend stack and collaborating with cross-functional partners to enhance infrastructure efficiency.

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

Requirements:

• 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