Key skills
Event loggingJavaKotlinC++Backend system architectureSoftware development best practicesCMentoringCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Airbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests through unique stays and experiences. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the event logging team to drive the technical direction of their logging platform, collaborating with various teams to enhance user activity data capture and improve overall product innovation.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with a wide variety of partner teams to understand their pain points, prototype proposed solutions, and drive adoption of logging products and tooling
- Own the technical direction and roadmap for a major area of the logging platform, aligning it with broader organizational priorities
- Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
- Create and present design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, particularly in the logging and observability space
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
Requirements:
- 9+ years of industry engineering experience
- Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
- Deep expertise in one or more backend/server languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++) and a track record of architecting high-traffic backend systems
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems
- Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for software development
- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization
- Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in event logging and observability