Airbnb

Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging.

Senior Staff Engineer, Performance

Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2007H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

13 days ago

Salary

$1 / year

13 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDockerEC2Google Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetes

Job Description

• Work closely with cost and performance cross-functional partners and engineers across all teams at Airbnb to optimize the performance and the operating cost of our infrastructure. • Work with our largest services to optimize their performance through profiling, analysis and tuning. • Build distributed performance tooling to constantly collect performance data and develop automation to surface performance bottlenecks. • Lead continuous load testing in production to determine performance bottlenecks and vulnerabilities of airbnb.com. • Work on production performance issues to minimize latency for our customers. • Work to modernize Airbnb’s software stack touching every layer. • Build infrastructure to deploy the latest hardware to our AWS Kubernetes clusters in order to minimize their footprint.

Job Requirements

  • 13+ years of relevant performance optimization industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
  • A working knowledge of processor vectorization activation for various COTS applications
  • Deep software tuning and optimization experience, Java preferred but other major languages such as C++ acceptable.
  • Expertise in using metrics to uncover performance issues.
  • Familiarity with system hardware as it pertains to performance.
  • Familiarity with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
  • Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
  • You are a strong problem solver and have solid performance debugging skills.
  • Experience of load testing software either in production or through benchmarking
  • You are passionate about efficiency and performance

Benefits

  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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