Senior Software Engineer, Dev Tools
Senior engineer building and operating cloud dev environments, Kubernetes platforms, and tooling for engineers and AI agents at Airbnb. Requires 5-9+ years building high-scale distributed systems on AWS.
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
- 5-9+ years of industry experience (and/or relevant academic experience)
- 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
- 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 to explain complex infrastructure tradeoffs and drive cross-team alignment
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills
- Passion for developer productivity
- Experience building systems that run reliably at scale on AWS (EKS, EC2, EBS, VPCs, load balancers, VPN tunneling)
- Experience building infrastructure that other teams build products on top of (reliability, observability, clear contracts, graceful failure modes)
- Experience driving meaningful cost reduction through architectural changes
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar server-side languages
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with developer environments, remote development platforms, or sandboxed workload execution
- Experience with infrastructure for AI agents or asynchronous compute workloads
- Experience with CI/CD, integration testing, build systems, or pre-submit validation
- Experience with Git, GitHub Enterprise, source-control infrastructure, or large-scale repository hosting
- Experience with code-review systems, policy enforcement, code ownership, or automated review tooling
- Experience with Kubernetes operators, workload scheduling, autoscaling, resource isolation, or capacity management
- Experience with Bazel, monorepo tooling, dependency management, or polyglot build infrastructure
- Experience with platform APIs, control planes, worker pools, caching systems, or distributed queues
- Experience with authentication, authorization, secrets management, or secure workload execution
- Experience with infrastructure cost optimization and capacity planning
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