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Senior Backend Engineer, GraphQL
Location
United States
Posted
143 days ago
Salary
$191K - $225K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer, GraphQL
Airbnb
• Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap as well as taking on metrics and tracing scaling challenges that push the boundaries of our existing observability infrastructure • Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability • Developing technical expertise in Viaduct framework as well as informed with product teams’ use cases and requests • Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers and ensuring that their code gets deployed daily to production • Get into the flow during daily and intentional Focus Time blocks
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in a relevant role - ideally in a team that owned a developer platform
- Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
- Experience operating critical online backend services
- Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
- Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL, Kotlin, AI-enabled development flows
Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
- Base pay dependent on experience and market demands
- Bonus eligibility
- Equity opportunities
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