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 conne...

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...

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.

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.