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Staff Software Engineer, Performance

2 hours, 16 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
AWS Azure C++ Docker EC2 GCP Java Kubernetes Microservices
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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

  • Optimize infrastructure performance and operating cost across Airbnb’s backend stack in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
  • Work with Airbnb’s largest services to improve performance through profiling, analysis, and tuning.
  • Build distributed performance tooling to collect data continuously and automate surfacing of performance bottlenecks.
  • Lead continuous production load testing to identify bottlenecks and vulnerabilities on airbnb.com.
  • Investigate and resolve production performance issues to reduce latency for customers.
  • Help modernize Airbnb’s software stack across multiple layers of the platform.
  • Build infrastructure to deploy the latest hardware to AWS Kubernetes clusters to reduce fleet footprint.
  • Evaluate new hardware offerings and JVM performance relative to hardware configurations and OS features.
  • Own performance observability capabilities for resources such as CPU, memory, and locks and make the data available to backend teams.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant performance optimization experience in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment.
  • Deep software tuning and optimization experience; Java preferred, with C++ or other major languages acceptable.
  • Working knowledge of processor vectorization activation for various COTS applications.
  • Expertise using metrics to uncover performance issues.
  • Familiarity with system hardware as it relates to performance.
  • Experience with a public cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and infrastructure-as-a-service offerings such as EC2.
  • Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience with load testing software in production or through benchmarking.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across teams.
  • Strong problem-solving and performance debugging skills.

Benefits

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

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