Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Core
Architecting and scaling high-performance, distributed infrastructure systems for Airbnb's online data serving and ingestion platforms.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Builds
Highly available KV stores, control planes for ElasticCache, distributed coordination services, and managed data export solutions (CDC, snapshots).
Domain
Online Data Infrastructure / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, multi-tenant storage design, infrastructure scaling, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, codebase navigation, operational troubleshooting.
Preferred skills
Experience with MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Druid, Zookeeper, ElasticCache.
Responsibilities
Lead multi-quarter cross-functional projects, mentor and coach team members, influence long-term roadmap and strategy, raise operational standards, debug and fix critical issues, onboarding engineers to complex codebases.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with leadership
