Staff Software Engineer, Build

Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals worldwide. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Developer Infrastructure organization, focusing on enhancing build systems and accelerating engineering productivity. The role involves architecting improvements to build infrastructure and driving technical direction across multiple teams.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting improvements to our existing Bazel installation, and remote build/cache infrastructure to improve correctness, reproducibility, and speed
• Setting the technical roadmap for software build system reliability and performance
• Accelerating inner-loop development velocity, along with CI run-times, by diagnosing and resolving build performance bottlenecks, including remote execution efficiency, cache hit rates, and critical path analysis
• Driving organizational alignment on build system investments across multiple teams and technical domains
• Serving as the technical authority on build systems across Airbnb: setting standards, mentoring senior engineers, and owning build architecture decisions across multiple repos
• Partnering with Security on optimizing build processes related to base images
• Ensuring a commitment to craft and operational excellence

Requirements:

• 8+ years industry experience
• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Metrics-driven approach to decision-making, with a track record for delivering quantifiable impact and presenting to engineering leadership
• Expertise in Bazel, and concepts such as action graph, dependency analysis, remote caching
• Driving cross-organizational alignment and decisions for investments
• Strong ability to review code