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.
Staff Software Engineer - Open Source Server
Designs and implements core backend features for open source server, focusing on large-scale distributed systems with high reliability and scalability. Brings deep experience in concurrent systems, operational environments, and tools like Elasticsearch or ClickHouse.
212k – 286kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemote
About the role
What You'll Do
- Design and implement core backend service features
- Provide appropriate test coverage for unit, integration, and performance for your feature ownership area
- Clearly document design choices and operational knowledge to successfully deploy and run service with those features
- Provide appropriate service level logs and metrics to make features operational for cloud service setup
- Provide appropriate alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for production
What You'll Bring
- Rich experience as an "Arranger" and/or "Builder/Enhancer" in large-scale distributed systems design (reliability, scalability)
- Operational experience in large-scale distributed systems environments
- Experience developing highly concurrent systems
- Demonstrated experience writing concurrent code in production as Advanced or Expert levels
- Knowledge and experience of reliability so you can further ensure the high reliability of the Temporal system
- Experience with Elastic Search or Clickhouse
- Ideas and actions to improve the velocity of the team
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Go, other similar languages great too
- Experience with infrastructure environments (strong plus)
Compensation
- Estimated pay range: $212,000 - $286,000 depending on experience and location
- Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
Skills
GoDistributed SystemsConcurrent ProgrammingElasticsearchClickHouseTemporalReliability EngineeringScalabilityInfrastructureCloud Services
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