Airbnb is seeking to develop a best-in-class enterprise-wide SRE program that enables the business, and to ensure the overall performance and reliability of Airbnb’s infrastructure and products.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies
- Strong leadership skills, with 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect
- Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms, with a deep understanding of multi-cloud environments
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations
- Experience with circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and other reliable design patterns
- Experience with automation and configuration as code
Responsibilities
- Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability
- Design, implement and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards
- Create incident management processes that can scale with the organization
- Foster the SRE/Reliability model that takes into consideration the nuances of an engineering culture
- Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability
- Automate as much as possible and always configure as code
- Predict future failures and work proactively to mitigate them
Other
- Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proactive approach to seeing patterns and opportunities to increase leverage and tooling
- Build deep partnerships with engineering leaders
- Partner with the broader organization to learn from incidents through a blameless post mortem process
- Mentor and lead other Site Reliability Engineers
- Uplevel and support others with servant leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience
- Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager
