Airbnb is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its Performance team, a senior role focused on defining and driving the performance strategy across the organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in performance engineering, a strong understanding of software-hardware interactions, and leadership skills to influence cross-functional teams
Job Summary
This role involves defining the long-term performance strategy spanning product performance, infrastructure efficiency, and business objectives.
The team builds tooling that enables every backend team to self-serve performance insights across CPU, GPU, and memory utilization.
As the TL for the Performance team, you will partner with engineering teams to tie infrastructure performance directly to user experience and business outcomes.
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Airbnb is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its Performance team, a senior role focused on defining and driving the performance strategy across the organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in performance engineering, a strong understanding of software-hardware interactions, and leadership skills to influence cross-functional teams.
Salary
Base: $292,000 - $365,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: Eligible; Benefits: Not specified
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
12+ years performance engineering experience
CPU GPU memory profiling expertise
AWS GCP Azure cloud infrastructure
Kubernetes Docker container orchestration
Distributed request tracing capabilities
Nice-to-have
Ability to influence cross-organizational teams
Experience with emerging hardware evaluation
Strong mentorship and technical upskilling skills
Key Requirements
12+ years of performance engineering experience
Deep understanding of software and hardware systems at scale
Proven ability to define company-wide SLOs
Work Rights
Must live in a state where Airbnb has a registered entity