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Principal Software Engineer, Performance

1 hour, 38 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
AWS Azure Docker GCP Kubernetes
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Airbnb

Airbnb

Airbnb is the world's largest community-driven hospitality company, offering homes and experiences in 191 countries. It is an online marketplace connecting people to unique accommodations and experiences globally.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
5K-10K
Founded 2008
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Description

  • Define and drive Airbnb's long-term performance strategy across product performance, infrastructure efficiency, and business objectives.
  • Lead the architecture and development of profiling and instrumentation infrastructure for CPU, GPU, memory, request hot paths, utilization, and deployment events.
  • Make performance insights self-serve for backend teams through tooling and scalable systems.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams across compute, reliability, backend frameworks, and AI Infra to optimize fleet utilization.
  • Connect performance outcomes to business objectives and company-wide SLOs, and guide teams toward scalable, efficient execution.
  • Evaluate emerging hardware and software technologies and advise on build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Influence external solutions ecosystem decisions in strategically important areas.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, architectural guidance, and performance best practices.
  • Partner with engineering teams to tie infrastructure performance to user experience and business outcomes.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of performance engineering experience in high-scale, high-growth production environments.
  • Deep understanding of how software and hardware systems interact at scale, including performance-critical architectural patterns.
  • Strong familiarity with public cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Experience with container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with profiling and instrumentation tooling across CPU, GPU, memory, and distributed request tracing.
  • Demonstrated ability to define performance objectives and drive delivery against company-wide SLOs across multiple organizations.
  • Experience influencing teams that do not report to you and driving long-term investments over short-term fixes.
  • Strong communication and influence skills with senior engineering and product leadership.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and upleveling technical teams (preferred).
  • Comfort working across kernel, JVM, and post-mortem analysis contexts.

Benefits

  • US - Remote Eligible role.
  • Occasional work from an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager.
  • Base salary range of $292,000 to $365,000 USD.
  • Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
  • Reasonable accommodation support for candidates with disabilities during the application process.

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