Senior Software Engineer, Dev Tools

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AirbnbSoftware Engineering

US - RemoteFull-TimeSenior

Salary$196,000 — $230,000 USD

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5-9+ years of industry experience (and/or relevant academic experience).
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple engineers.
Full-cycle development experience: strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems.
Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Strong problem solver with solid debugging skills.
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) including EKS, EC2, EBS, and cloud networking (VPCs, load balancers, VPN tunneling).
Experience building platform infrastructure with a focus on reliability, observability, and clear contracts.
Demonstrated ability to drive meaningful cost reduction through architectural changes.
Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar server-side languages.

Build and operate cloud development environments and execution platforms for engineers and AI agents.
Scale Kubernetes-based worker pools, control planes, and APIs for parallel and asynchronous workloads.
Improve AirDev validation so engineers and agents can test changes quickly before CI.
Strengthen source-control and code-review systems as PR volume, automation, and concurrency grow.
Improve developer workflows across build, test, dependency management, and polyglot monorepo tooling.
Diagnose production issues across distributed systems, networking, storage, and orchestration.
Set technical direction and make high-stakes architectural decisions with significant ambiguity.
Mentor engineers on the team and raise the quality bar through code review and design feedback.

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