Airbnb's Infrastructure Performance team aims to optimize performance across their fleet and backend stack, including K8s services, Observability infra, Data pipelines, and ML infrastructure, to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience of load testing software either in production or through benchmarking
- Solid performance debugging skills.
Responsibilities
- Optimize the performance and the operating cost of our infrastructure.
- Optimize the performance of largest services 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.
Other
- 10+ years of relevant performance optimization industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
- You are a strong problem solver
- You are passionate about efficiency and performance
- This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
