The opportunity
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…
What they're looking for
- + years of performance engineering experience in high-scale, high-growth production environments
- Deep understanding of how software and hardware systems interact at scale,: including architectural patterns for performance-critical stacks. You know the difference between a bad algorithm and a bad cache eviction policy, and you're comfortable in the kernel, in the JVM, and in a post-mortem
- Strong familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and: container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with profiling and instrumentation tooling across CPU, GPU, memory, and distributed request tracing