Senior Staff Engineer, Performance

Airbnb

Remote, US
$244,000 - $305,000 usd py
Remote
Performance optimization
Software tuning
Distributed performance tooling
The Infrastructure Performance team's charter is to optimize performance across the fleet and throughout the backend stack, including K8s services, Observability infra, Data pipelines, and ML infrastructure

Job Summary

  • The Infrastructure Performance team's charter is to optimize performance across the fleet and throughout the backend stack, including K8s services, Observability infra, Data pipelines, and ML infrastructure.
  • You will work closely with cost and performance cross-functional partners and engineers across all teams at Airbnb to optimize the performance and the operating cost of our infrastructure.
  • Responsibilities include building distributed performance tooling, leading continuous load testing, and working on production performance issues to minimize latency for customers.

Matching Summary

The Infrastructure Performance team's charter is to optimize performance across the fleet and throughout the backend stack, including K8s services, Observability infra, Data pipelines, and ML infrastructure.

Salary

$244,000 - $305,000 USD

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • performance optimization
  • software tuning
  • distributed performance tooling
  • load testing
  • JVM evaluation
  • hardware evaluation

Nice-to-have

  • passion for efficiency
  • strong problem solver
  • cross-functional collaboration

Key Requirements

  • 13+ years of relevant experience
  • working knowledge of processor vectorization
  • familiarity with system hardware
  • familiarity with public cloud provider
  • familiarity with container and orchestration technologies
  • experience of load testing software

Work Rights

Not specified

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