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Staff Software Engineer, GraphQL

1 hour, 24 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
API Gateway CI/CD GraphQL Kotlin LLM
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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

  • Drive platform reliability and operational excellence for Viaduct’s critical API traffic.
  • Design and implement deployment pipelines, SLO frameworks, observability tooling, and performance improvements.
  • Build AI-enabled incident response automation and self-service debugging capabilities for engineers.
  • Improve runtime resiliency through resource attribution, performance regression testing, and proactive monitoring.
  • Investigate and resolve complex production issues using traces, metrics, and resource utilization analysis.
  • Design observability features such as span instrumentation, SLO dashboards, and fine-grained workload attribution.
  • Develop tooling for deployment triage, service health monitoring, and incident response automation.
  • Lead technical design discussions and RFCs for resiliency and release management initiatives.
  • Partner with tenant teams to debug performance issues and advise on GraphQL best practices.
  • Contribute to the Viaduct Modern architecture and open-source Viaduct project.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of software engineering experience with significant depth in backend systems, distributed architectures, and platform engineering.
  • Deep expertise in observability and monitoring, including SLO frameworks, distributed tracing systems, and metrics pipelines at scale.
  • Proven experience in reliability engineering, incident response, root cause analysis, and high-availability systems (99.99%+).
  • Strong experience with performance tuning and resource management in JVM-based systems, including profiling and garbage collection optimization.
  • Understanding of concurrency models such as blocking I/O, thread pools, and coroutines in Kotlin.
  • Experience operating high-traffic systems with deployment safety, automated rollbacks, and progressive delivery strategies.
  • Familiarity with GraphQL or similar API gateway/data access layer technologies.
  • Experience building developer tooling and platforms with a focus on developer experience and self-service capabilities.
  • Strong leadership and communication skills to work across infrastructure and product engineering teams.
  • US remote eligible and must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Benefits

  • Base pay range of $204,000 to $255,000 USD.
  • Role may be eligible for bonus.
  • Role may be eligible for equity.
  • Role may be eligible for benefits.
  • Role may be eligible for Employee Travel Credits.
  • US-remote eligible with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites.

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