Software Engineer, Cloud Networking

Responsibilities

• Work with open source communities (e.g. Istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services.
• Build the cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services.
• Work with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airbnb services.
• Design the multi-region network architecture on public clouds, and build software and operation tools to manage Airbnb’s production network.
• Work with product and engineering teams to optimize the network performance for Airbnb services.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.
• Expertise with network architecture on public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and their network service offerings (e.g., VPC, Security Group, PrivateLink and related products).
• Experience running large scale networking systems and software (e.g. Edge proxies, DNS, CDN, network gateways).
• Strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering teams.
• Strong problem solver who has led a team that is on-call for production infrastructure.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with Istio, Envoy.