Airbnb is looking to increase their overall supply of Hotels and needs a Staff Engineer to build a next generation Hospitality & Booking Platform.
Requirements
- 9+ years experience with Java or Ruby
- Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) and key/value stores
- Experience with scaling and maintaining high-traffic production systems in previous positions
- Experience with server driven UI architectures, patterns, and API design
- Strong project scoping and project management skills
- Ability to mentor other engineers on the team
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kafka
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver guest & hotel partner facing features
- Ensure high availability, scalability and speed of our backend systems
- Evaluating, identifying & defining improvements to the existing infrastructure
- Be the engineering lead on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout
- Work with engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the HotelTonight platform
- Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs
- Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack
Other
- Communicator - clearly and effectively communicate with senior stakeholders
- Problem solver - able to evaluate technical approaches to problems and provide viable alternative solutions
- Ability to mentor other engineers on the team
- US - Remote Eligible, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites
- Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity