Airbnb
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure
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Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
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USA
Role overview
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure
Requirements and responsibilities
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- Contribute to and execute the multi-year strategy to evolve Airbnb’s network architecture
- Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects across infrastructure and product teams
- Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers
- Facilitate cross-team alignment on goals, outcomes, and timelines
- Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Work with open source technologies and communities
- BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of work experiences in relative areas
- Experience running large scale networking systems and software (e.g. Edge proxies, DNS, CDN, network gateways), experience working with Istio, Envoy is a plus.
- Expertise with network architecture on public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and their network service offerings (e.g., VPC, Security Group, PrivateLink and related products.).
- You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering teams.
- You are a strong problem solver and have led a team that is on-call for production infrastructure before.
- You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
- Zero-downtime Istio upgrades across thousands of pods/VMs –Link: InfoQ coverage - 2025
- KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, Link: Secure Outgoing Traffic: Building a powerful Internet Egress Gateway for Reliable connectivity, Edie Yang, Akshita Agarwal.
- KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, Link: DNS deep dive in k8s with CoreDNS, Jingming Guo
- The Airbnb Tech Blog 2023, Link: Improving Istio Propagation Delay, Ying Zhu
- KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2022, Link: Whose packet is it anyway? Life of a packet through service mesh, Kevin Leimkuhler, Doug Jordan.
- Building simplified service mesh API for developers -2022
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