Senior Software Engineer

The Community You Will Join:

At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Cloud Infrastructure - Identity & Security team is responsible for securing the foundational platforms and cloud environment that power Airbnb. We provide secure, scalable and verifiable identities to all the entities in our platform (services, nodes, developers etc.). These identities allow each entity to communicate confidently with each other—and with the cloud—according to well-defined policies and guardrails.

The Difference You Will Make:

Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s end user community and regularly meets with peer companies to discuss cloud native engineering challenges at scale.

A Typical Day: 

• Build cutting edge cloud native infrastructure on top of the public cloud.
• Deliver frameworks and platforms that are secure, efficient, mature and highly available that abstract away infrastructure complexity.
• Investigate and adapt industry best practices to Airbnb’s unique environment.
• Systematically improve availability by applying industry and distributed systems best practices.
• Work with other talented and friendly infrastructure and infosec engineers to build the foundation for Airbnb’s technical growth over the next decade.

Your Expertise:

• 5-9+ years of relevant software development experience with a BS/Masters or 2+ years with a PhD. in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment.
• Expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their Identity & Security offerings (e.g. IAM, KMS, Secrets Management).
• Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with authentication and authorization technologies used for workload identities (OIDC, mTLS, RBAC, certificates, JWT tokens, etc.)
• Strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software lifecycle.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem solver and have solid production debugging skills.
• Passionate about cloud security risks management, secure by default configurations, and blast radius reduction.
  

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. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.