Senior Software Engineer, Core Services (Auth Infra)

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

The Difference You Will Make:

Auth Infrastructure: This team is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure around Airbnb’s authorization systems. Authorization systems manage permissions for all Airbnb platform products and services, both for internal and external communities. These systems provide developers at Airbnb with a robust and scalable framework to ensure secure and controlled access, enabling the creation of trustworthy applications.

A Typical Day: 

This engineer will work on distributed systems with focus in the domain of authorization, that have higher reliability and security requirements than most backend systems or services. The systems owned by the team have a large number of critical services, and any downtime across these services can result in a hard downtime for the Airbnb platform. In addition, the team collaborates closely with the product and infra engineering teams to build new features and evolve the systems to meet the engineering challenges as the business is growing and evolving.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Designing and implementing in distributed systems. The role is very hands-on and requires expertise in designing significant parts of the authorization systems, implementing core features in collaboration with other team members, formulating well-thought out rollout and testing plans, and being able to participate in team’s on call.
• Maintaining and debugging existing authorization systems. This could involve fixing bugs, improving test coverage, improving performance, contributing to production excellence, adding new features, code reviews and creating dashboards for better observability into the systems.
• Providing technical support to other engineers and developers. This could involve answering questions, debugging code, or helping to troubleshoot problems. Partner with stakeholders to understand their feature requests, design, implement and ship them as per expectations.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest security threats and trends. This could involve reading security blogs, attending conferences, or taking security courses.

Collaborating within and broadly across the Airbnb tech community. Working with other engineers on Airbnb wide initiatives, collaborating with external teams - partners and stakeholders, and ensuring that team success makes Airbnb platform and community successful.

Your Expertise:

• Experience working on distributed systems and evaluating trade-offs
• An ideal candidate should be proficient in Java to be most effective in their role. 
• Experience working in Authorization systems is a plus
• Proficient in technical communication - writing design docs, presenting in design reviews, writing effective post-mortems, etc.
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
• Are motivated to contribute to a good team culture
• Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team 

Your Location:

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. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

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