Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

Airbnb·RemoteRemotesenior

In short

→Ingeniero SRE sénior centrado en la fiabilidad a nivel empresarial.
→Día a día: estrategia, arquitectura de SRE, gestión de incidentes y automatización de infraestructura.
→Destacado: liderazgo técnico sin gestión directa, con impacto a gran escala en toda la compañía.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia avanzada en SRE y fiabilidad de sistemas a gran escala.
✓Capacidad para construir y liderar estrategias a largo plazo en fiabilidad.
✓Habilidades sólidas en automatización, configuración como código y diseño de sistemas resilientes.
✓Experiencia en la creación de procesos de gestión de incidentes escalables.
✓Influencia técnica y capacidad para impactar equipos y arquitectura sin roles de gestión.
✓Contribuciones técnicas hands-on: código, diseño y arquitectura.

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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: We are a community based on connection and belonging - a community that was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million hosts who have welcomed over 1.4 billion guest arrivals to over 100,000 cities and towns in almost every country and region across the globe. Hosts on Airbnb are everyday people who share their worlds to provide guests with the feeling of connection and being at home. We strive to connect people and places. Airbnb has five stakeholders and is designed with all of them in mind. Along with employees and shareholders, we serve hosts, guests, and the communities in which they live. We intend to make long-term decisions considering all of our stakeholders because their collective success is key for our business to thrive. The Difference You Will Make: Airbnb is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join their Site Reliability Engineering team. The Senior Staff Engineer is a key member of the technical team who will help facilitate a best-in-class enterprise-wide SRE program that enables the business. They will be responsible for driving the continued development of a long-term Reliability strategy and for ensuring the overall performance and reliability of Airbnb’s infrastructure and products. Additionally, they will work closely with engineering teams to provide tools, processes, and expertise to make services easy to operate and as reliable as possible. As a senior technical individual contributor, the Senior Staff Engineer will bring a unique skill set and experience to the organization, and work to solve broader technical challenges around infrastructure. They will lend expertise to specific teams and deep dive into projects as needed. Airbnb’s engineering organization values everyone’s input and ideas. Even at a senior level, all Software Engineers at Airbnb are expected to be hands on and contribute code and/or be involved in the architecture/design. A Typical Day: • Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner within the organization. • Design, implement and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards. • Create incident management processes that can scale with the organization as it continues its rapid growth. Assess how the organization manages incidents and responds to them; reduce operational toil stemming from incident management. • Foster the SRE/Reliability model that takes into consideration the nuances of an engineering culture that has a great sense of ownership over their services. • Bring a strong customer focus to the Reliability function, centered on optimizing the infrastructure and platform, and ensuring systems are highly available and performant. • Develop Production Readiness standards to ensure service reliability. Automate as much as possible and always configure as code. Predict future failures and work proactively to mitigate them. Advocate and implement reliable design patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, etc.) • Culture, Influence and Team Leadership • Create a culture where Reliability is a state of mind, instilling a proacti

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