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Senior Software Engineer, Community Support Engineering
Location
United States
Posted
155 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer, Community Support Engineering
Airbnb
• Design and evolve data models and service contracts that scale cleanly and remain stable over time • Build reliable, observable backend services with clear SLOs; instrument, measure, and iterate to improve latency and uptime • Drive performance and correctness across critical flows; prevent regressions with solid testing and reviews. • Collaborate with cross‑functional partners to translate requirements into platform capabilities and ship them end‑to‑end. • Operate services in production; participate in on‑call; learn from incidents to strengthen the platform. • Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and milestones clearly; remove blockers and keep work moving.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of backend software development experience
- Proven experience building backend platform services in JVM languages (Java/Kotlin), with strong API and data‑modeling skills.
- Track record of high‑velocity execution with high code quality and ownership in ambiguous platform spaces.
- Clear communication and collaboration across product/ops/engineering
- Production operations experience: observability, SLOs, incident response.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
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