Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals worldwide. The company is seeking a Software Engineer for Infrastructure to enhance the search experience by improving system reliability and performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Work on search infrastructure engineering projects to improve search experience, in collaboration with product teams
• Up-level search system reliability, scalability and performance, in collaboration with Infrastructure teams
• Use the data in the Knowledge Graph to power rich product use-cases and also enrich the existing data based on measurement
• Build the next generation search platform to power different products at Airbnb, including typeahead, contextualizing and personalizing search results
• A large chunk of focused time to implement important components of the search platform, with GitHub Copilot as your assistant
• Analyze large amounts of data, build hypotheses, experiment, learn and iterate
• Give technical presentations/proposals to partners, add documentation about existing systems
• Discuss with cross-functional partners (e.g., product managers, designers) on the technical design of an exciting new search feature
• Attend an in-person gathering with team members and partners

Requirements:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics is required
• Exceptional coding skills in Java and Python and clear understanding of Algorithms/Data structures
• This position requires 80% of the time coding
• Analyzing and deriving insights from large data sets by applying simple ML techniques is required
• Willingness to try, experiment and learn new concepts with a positive attitude to work is highly desirable
• Open source committers to Lucene/ElasticSearch are very welcome!
• Good technical writing skills are desirable
• New Graduates may also apply if able to provide evidence of having written large amounts of code/building systems