Software Engineer, Web Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Contribute across the team’s surface areas (testing frameworks, developer environments, build systems and bundlers, CI pipelines, observability and experimentation libraries, editor integrations, internal web service framework) to improve developer experience, velocity, debuggability, performance, reliability, and reduce cost.
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand pain points, pilot solutions, and drive adoption of tools and frameworks.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams and product foundation teams to build additional capabilities.
• Participate in all phases of software development: architecture/design, implementation, testing, and on-call.
• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning.
• Work on upcoming projects including modularizing client observability libraries, code editor and Claude skills improvements, bundler enhancements, and improving CI debuggability.

Requirements

• 2–4+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role, including frontend web development.
• Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Interest in harnessing AI tools (like Claude Code and Codex) to modernize and expedite development practices.
• Ability to communicate effectively and work closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces.
• Love of collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Interest in working with IDE infrastructure, such as VS Code plugins or language servers, or Claude Code skills and MCP servers.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.