The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb’s mission is to create a world where people can Belong Anywhere. Our community of guests and hosts rely on Airbnb around the clock to facilitate millions of seamless stays and unique experiences per day. As we prepare for the once-in-a-lifetime travel rebound, we’re looking for experienced engineers to help build our next generation technology stack.

The Observability team’s mission is to provide Airbnb engineers the ability to easily gain insights into system behavior in a complex, rapidly-evolving, distributed environment, and leverage the insight to deliver a highly available and performant service to Airbnb hosts, guests, and other stakeholders. 

The Difference You Will Make:

We are building our next generation Observability platform on top of industry standard, open-source frameworks. We aim to unify the processes and tools to collect, process, store, and analyze large volumes of telemetry data in real time. The quality of Observability tools available to our engineers will impact their ability to easily identify anomalous system behavior, quickly debug and diagnose the root cause of failures, and achieve high operational excellence.

A Typical Day: 

In this role, you will work closely with a group of talented engineers and with open-source technology. Day to day responsibilities include:

• Design, implement, and operate resilient and scalable distributed systems that processes billions of events per minute
• Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, maintainable code, leveraging and contributing back to open source
• Help Airbnb engineers self-solve issues and share best practices for building observable applications

Your Expertise:

We are looking for new teammates who have 6+ years industry experience in and/or similarly interested:

• Metrics Frameworks: Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, OpenTelemetry
• Logging: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Kibana
• Distributed Tracing: OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Jaeger
• Profiling: JVM, go pprof
• Cloud-Native technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, AWS
• Languages: Golang, Ruby/Python, Java/Kotlin, Javascript/Typescript (Good CS fundamentals and be unafraid to jump into unfamiliar code)
• Automated correlation and anomaly detection
• Site performance tracking and management
• Building robust distributed systems that can be depended on to troubleshoot our production system
• Building high-leverage tools for other engineers at Airbnb
• Great communication skills and eagerness to learn and share knowledge within the engineering organization

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.