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[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure to lead a team in developing and maintaining critical online serving storage systems and data ingestion platforms, ensuring high availability and performance for Airbnb's data needs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of developers to deliver multi-quarter cross functional projects
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in data ingestion systems and evaluate and incorporate new technologies and methodologies to improve the existing data ingestion architecture/solution
  • Influence the team’s and organization’s long-term roadmap and strategy
  • Mentor and coach team members, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and technical standards in the team
  • Raise operational standards by effectively and proactively identifying, debugging and fixing operational issues
  • Be part of the oncall rotation for the Ingestion team

Skills

  • 9+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy
  • Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability
  • Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

Company Overview

  • Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.airbnb.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 27 in 2026, 234 in 2025, 176 in 2024, 160 in 2023, 270 in 2022, 250 in 2021, 274 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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