Senior Staff Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (Compute)

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 connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering and operating the foundational platforms and cloud environment that power Airbnb.

Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Compute Foundation's end user community and regularly meets with peer companies to discuss cloud native engineering challenges at scale.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you'll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Airbnb Kubernetes compute platform. You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience. This compute platform is the foundation for all of the features that Cloud Infrastructure delivers in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency. This compute platform ensures the consistency required to enable delivery across multiple cloud vendors. Your peers will rely on you to provide a quality platform that makes it easy to deliver quality features to our product teams across Airbnb.

Your team will provide the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams to deliver enhancements to the platform and product teams to deliver first class experiences to Airbnb Guests and Hosts around the world.

A Typical Day:

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
• Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
• Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve Airbnb's Cloud Platform
• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the Airbnb compute platform.

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
• 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
• Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
• Kubernetes Experience is required.
• Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience.

Your Location:

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.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Pay Range

$244,000-$305,000 USD