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Staff Software Engineer, Events Logging

Staff-level backend engineer driving technical direction for Airbnb's event logging platform. Owns roadmap, mentors engineers, and influences logging strategy across the organization.

212k – 265kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemote9+ YOE
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About the role

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with partner teams to understand pain points, prototype solutions, and drive adoption of logging products and tooling
  • Own the technical direction and roadmap for a major area of the logging platform
  • Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
  • Create and present design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others
  • Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in logging and observability
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous learning

Requirements

  • 9+ years of industry engineering experience
  • Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
  • Deep expertise in one or more backend/server languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++)
  • Track record of architecting high-traffic backend systems
  • Ability to work outside usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
  • Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems
  • Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for software development
  • Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in event logging and observability

Skills

JavaKotlinC++Backend SystemsEvent LoggingObservabilitySystem ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipMentorshipCross-Functional Collaboration

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