Senior Staff Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Networking team within Airbnb’s Cloud Infrastructure org is responsible for designing, building, and operating the software and solutions that connect all Airbnb users and services. As a technical leader, you will help define and drive the technical strategy and evolution of Airbnb’s network infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and execute the multi-year strategy to evolve Airbnb’s network architecture
• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects across infrastructure and product teams
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
• Facilitate cross-team alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Work with open source technologies and communities

Requirements:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of work experiences in relative areas
• Experience running large scale networking systems and software (e.g. Edge proxies, DNS, CDN, network gateways), experience working with Istio, Envoy is a plus
• Expertise with network architecture on public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and their network service offerings (e.g., VPC, Security Group, PrivateLink and related products.)
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering teams
• Strong problem solver and have led a team that is on-call for production infrastructure before
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality