Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Experience

📋 Job Overview

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

🏢 About Airbnb

At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Operating within the Cloud Infrastructure organization, the Cloud Experience team builds and maintains the foundational cloud platform experience that powers operations across Airbnb. We focus on developing intuitive interfaces that enable engineers to efficiently construct and manage services and platforms without worrying about underlying infrastructure. We unify infra capabilities into streamlined self-serve workflows to achieve consistent experience for all developers.

🎯 The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Cloud Infrastructure team, you will be at the forefront of developing the AI-native infrastructure platform that supports all teams across Airbnb. Your primary focus will be building interfaces and agent-driven capabilities that help engineers provision and manage services throughout their lifecycle. This work spans developer APIs and CLIs; Kubernetes infrastructure and cloud automation; smart scheduling and autoscaling; multi-region capabilities and integrations with identity and security systems and the service mesh. You will partner with teams across Airbnb to deliver on the next generation of cloud capabilities for advancing our platforms supporting AI and ML workloads . With a global user base, our team's core values emphasize reliability, security, developer experience, efficiency, and scalability.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Deliver secure, efficient, and highly available frameworks and platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity, while optimizing and enhancing existing systems to strengthen availability, boost efficiency, and adapt to an AI-native world.
• Develop APIs and tools enabling Airbnb engineers to simplify service management and provisioning while securely scaling platform enhancements.
• Use and extend open source projects such as Kubernetes and Argo CD. Contribute improvements upstream when they benefit the broader community.
• Create agent-driven workflows with clear change previews and validation.
• Work with service owners and partner teams to identify confusing workflows and improve them.
• Debug production issues and improve the reliability and visibility of the systems you own.

📌 Required Qualifications

• A degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces such as APIs, CLIs or declarative configuration at large scale.
• Deep understanding in some of these: Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infra automations, public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience building AI agents that use tools or APIs and evaluating their behavior.
• Contributions to open source infrastructure projects.
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers.

🎁 Benefits

How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.