Airbnb
Software Engineer, Dev Tools
United States
Sponsorship not specified$162k-$190kDetected 18 hours ago
PythonGoDistributed SystemsCode ReviewGitCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDAgentic AIVPNCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- You've built infrastructure that other teams build products on top of.
- CI/CD, integration testing, build systems, or pre-submit validation
- Bazel, monorepo tooling, dependency management, or polyglot build infrastructure
- 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.
Requirements
- 2-4+ years of industry experience with bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
- Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- You are a strong problem solver and have solid debugging skills.
- You are passionate about developer productivity and making developer lives better.
- If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
Nice to have
- Experience in one or more of the following areas is especially valuable:
- Infrastructure for AI agents or asynchronous compute workloads
- Git, GitHub Enterprise, source-control infrastructure, or large-scale repository hosting
- Code-review systems, policy enforcement, code ownership, or automated review tooling
- Kubernetes operators, workload scheduling, autoscaling, resource isolation, or capacity management
- Platform APIs, control planes, worker pools, caching systems, or distributed queues
- Authentication, authorization, secrets management, or secure workload execution
- Infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning
Skills
- AI-assisted development is rapidly increasing the speed, volume, and concurrency of software delivery.
- Our cloud workspace costs nearly doubled in Q1 as agentic usage surged.
- The tradeoff between developer productivity and infrastructure spend is real, visible, and yours to influence.
- Scale Kubernetes-based worker pools, control planes, and APIs for parallel and asynchronous workloads.
- Improve AirDev validation so engineers and agents can test changes quickly before CI.
- Strengthen source-control and code-review systems as PR volume, automation, and concurrency grow.
- Diagnose production issues across distributed systems, networking, storage, and orchestration
- Setting technical direction and making high-stakes architectural decisions with significant ambiguity
Compensation
- $162,000 - $190,000 USD
- The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
Company info
- We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.
Equal opportunity
- Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
- If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.
This listing is sourced directly from Airbnb's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.