Staff Software Engineer, Events Logging
Leads the technical direction of Airbnb’s event-logging infrastructure, architecting scalable backend systems, shaping roadmaps, and delivering production tooling. Requires 9+ years of engineering experience, backend expertise, and a strong record of technical leadership and mentorship.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with partner teams to understand pain points, prototype solutions, and drive adoption of event-logging products and tooling.
- Own the technical direction and roadmap for a major area of the logging platform.
- Lead investments in technical capabilities that enable product innovation.
- Create and present design, product, and architecture documents, and provide feedback on others’ work.
- Translate prototypes into high-quality, scalable, maintainable production code through iterative development.
- Track industry trends, technologies, and best practices in logging and observability.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers while promoting knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
Requirements
- 9+ years of industry engineering experience.
- Strong communication, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Deep expertise in one or more backend/server languages, such as Java, Kotlin, or C++.
- Track record of architecting high-traffic backend systems.
- Ability to solve ambiguous problems and work outside a usual area of expertise.
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers across an organization.
- Experience driving software-development best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and technical priorities across a large organization.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly event-logging and observability systems.
Compensation
- Base salary: $212,000–$265,000 USD annually.
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Skills
Java, Kotlin, C++, Backend Systems, Event Logging, Observability, Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, System Architecture, Production Engineering
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