Airbnb
Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging.
Senior Staff Engineer, Performance
Location
United States
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$1 / year
13 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDockerEC2Google Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetes
Job Description
• Work closely with cost and performance cross-functional partners and engineers across all teams at Airbnb to optimize the performance and the operating cost of our infrastructure.
• Work with our largest services to optimize their performance 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.
Job Requirements
- 13+ years of relevant performance optimization industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
- A working knowledge of processor vectorization activation for various COTS applications
- 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.
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
- You are a strong problem solver and have solid performance debugging skills.
- Experience of load testing software either in production or through benchmarking
- You are passionate about efficiency and performance
Benefits
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
