# Software Engineer, Dev Tools

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $162k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, EKS, Go, Python, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, Bazel, Git
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Software Engineer building foundational Dev Tools infrastructure at Airbnb to support high-scale development for engineers and AI agents. Design, scale, and operate cloud dev environments, Kubernetes platforms, validation tools, and monorepo systems with focus on reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity. Requires 2+ years experience with distributed systems and orchestration technologies.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and operate cloud development environments and execution platforms for engineers and AI agents.
- Scale Kubernetes-based worker pools, control planes, and APIs for parallel and asynchronous workloads.
- Improve AirDev validation so engineers and agents can test changes quickly before CI.
- Strengthen source-control and code-review systems as PR volume, automation, and concurrency grow.
- Improve developer workflows across build, test, dependency management, and polyglot monorepo tooling.
- Diagnose production issues across distributed systems, networking, storage, and orchestration.
- Set technical direction and make high-stakes architectural decisions with significant ambiguity.
- Mentor engineers on the team and raise the quality bar through code review and design feedback.

## Requirements
- 2-4+ years of industry experience with bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Experience leading and shipping large scope technical projects in collaboration with multiple experienced engineers.
- Full-cycle developer with strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle.
- Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent communication skills; able to explain complex infrastructure tradeoffs to engineers at all levels and drive cross-team alignment without formal authority.
- Strong problem solver with solid debugging skills.
- Passionate about developer productivity and making developer lives better.
- Experience building systems that run reliably at scale on AWS, including EKS, EC2, EBS, and cloud networking (VPCs, load balancers, VPN tunneling).
- Platform thinking: built infrastructure that other teams build products on top of, with focus on reliability, observability, clear contracts, and graceful failure modes.
- Treat infrastructure spending as a first-class concern; driven meaningful cost reduction through architectural changes.
- Go, Python, or similar server-side languages.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Developer environments, remote development platforms, or sandboxed workload execution.
- Infrastructure for AI agents or asynchronous compute workloads.
- CI/CD, integration testing, build systems, or pre-submit validation.
- Git, GitHub Enterprise, source-control infrastructure, or large-scale repository hosting.
- Code-review systems, policy enforcement, code ownership, or automated review tooling.
- Kubernetes operators, workload scheduling, autoscaling, resource isolation, or capacity management.
- Bazel, monorepo tooling, dependency management, or polyglot build infrastructure.
- Platform APIs, control planes, worker pools, caching systems, or distributed queues.
- Authentication, authorization, secrets management, or secure workload execution.
- Infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning.

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