# Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering Team

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, Python, Go, Distributed Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Version Control, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Incident Management
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> Senior software engineer on the Production SRE team building reliability, monitoring, alerting, and incident-management tools for large-scale distributed systems. The role requires 5+ years of software engineering or SRE experience, strong programming skills, cloud and containerization expertise, and incident leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain tools and systems supporting service reliability, monitoring, and alerting.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability in mind and guide the use of tooling and automation.
- Identify and implement improvements to service reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
- Develop tools and systems to help infrastructure engineers manage operational challenges.
- Participate in incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues.
- Evaluate new technologies and industry best practices to improve SRE tooling and incident response procedures.
- Maintain a detailed understanding of critical site services, infrastructure, products, tools, and processes.
- Lead high-urgency incidents as Incident Commander and mentor less-experienced engineers in incident handling.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering or SRE roles, focused on large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, such as Java, Python, or Go.
- Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
- Knowledge of software development best practices, including version control, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Professional-level fluency in English.

## Compensation & Benefits
- No salary information provided.

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