Staff Backend Engineer

October 8

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Airbnb

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travel accommodations • collaborative economy • hospitality

5001 - 10000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Description

• Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. • Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. • Viaduct is a unified data access layer and platform connecting almost all of Airbnb’s online data. • 65% of Airbnb’s online traffic and products flow through the Viaduct infrastructure service. • Residing at the center of Airbnb’s tech stack between the user-facing products and backend infrastructure, Viaduct provides a global schema & query system through a GraphQL interface. • The Viaduct team has embarked on a mission to upgrade today’s solution with a new version of the system called “Viaduct Modern”. • You will join the team on this journey in both the creation of the new system as well as the migration of tenants away from today’s solution. • The Viaduct team is one of the most tenured and experienced teams in the company, setting the best practices and next-gen architecture for Airbnb.

Requirements

• 9+ years of work experience in a relevant engineering role. • 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 and Kotlin.

Benefits

• Bonus, • Equity, • Benefits, • Employee Travel Credits.