Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Experience

Airbnb is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Cloud Experience team within Cloud Infrastructure. The role builds AI-native infrastructure platform interfaces, APIs, tools, and agent-driven capabilities that help engineers provision and manage services, while improving platform reliability, security, efficiency, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver secure, efficient, and highly available frameworks and platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity, while optimizing and enhancing existing systems to strengthen availability, boost efficiency, and adapt to an AI-native world
• Develop APIs and tools enabling Airbnb engineers to simplify service management and provisioning while securely scaling platform enhancements
• Use and extend open source projects such as Kubernetes and Argo CD. Contribute improvements upstream when they benefit the broader community
• Create agent-driven workflows with clear change previews and validation
• Work with service owners and partner teams to identify confusing workflows and improve them
• Debug production issues and improve the reliability and visibility of the systems you own

Requirements:

• A degree  in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces such as APIs, CLIs or declarative configuration at large scale
• Deep understanding in some of these: Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infra automations, public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering teams
• Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills
• Experience building AI agents that use tools or APIs and evaluating their behavior
• Contributions to open source infrastructure projects
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers