Senior Software Engineer, Service Tools

Job title: Senior Software Engineer, Service Tools

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

The Difference You Will Make:

The Service Tools team’s mission is to enable Airbnb backend developers to develop, test, and maintain their code quickly and reliably. This team is responsible for the standard development lifecycle for service owners—everything from AI Integration for service development, to how integration tests work, to building services for deployment. This represents Airbnb’s largest cohort of developers, you will ultimately be responsible for their productivity.

A Typical Day:

As an engineer on Service Tools, you will work on technologies that help shape an industry-leading end to end developer experience for backend developers. In this role you will be:

• Building our next-gen build system using the latest technologies (e.g., Bazel).

• Working on integrations between the build system and CI/CD tooling (e.g., merge queues, code coverage, integration testing).

• Improving the editor (e.g., IntelliJ) experience for all backend developers.

• Helping to shape the technical strategy that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost.

• Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities. Your customers will be all engineers at Airbnb.

• A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence.

Your Expertise:

• FLUENT IN ENGLISH (PROFESSIONAL LEVEL)

• 6+ years industry experience.

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.).

• Experienced in architectural patterns of a high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms.

• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners.

• Experience working directly on build systems, and even better if you have hands-on experience with Bazel.

• Experience working with large monorepos.

• Extensive JVM experience.

• Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact.

• Love collaborating via product reviews, code reviews and architecture discussions.

• Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.

• Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

A Note on Recruiting Scams: Scammers sometimes pose as Airbnb recruiters to get money or personal information from candidates. Our open roles are posted on Airbnb’s Careers Page, and our recruiters correspond only from official Airbnb email addresses. Our recruiters will never ask for sensitive information or payment during the interview process. We encourage candidates to remain vigilant of these recruiting scams and not share sensitive information if you do not believe an individual is actually affiliated with Airbnb.