This role pays more than
70%
of similar roles. Most pay
$151,000–$219,150
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$213k
versus about
$185k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Airbnb
Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.
Airbnb currently has
68 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$200,000–$235,000
across 55 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Software Engineer, Tech Foundations, you will join the Service Mesh team within Network Platform to manage infrastructure for secure, reliable, and observable service-to-service communication. You will be responsible for designing, building, and operating critical systems including service discovery, load balancing, access control, traffic failover, and routing for thousands of applications. Your daily work involves defining roadmaps for mesh capabilities, setting SLOs/SLAs, mentoring engineers, and managing incident response and capacity planning. The role requires expertise in large-scale networking systems such as edge proxies, DNS, CDN, and network gateways. You will utilize cloud-native technologies including Istio and Envoy to solve complex infrastructure challenges like global traffic load balancing and disaster recovery. This position focuses on the core backend infrastructure that connects all internal services across a distributed, high-scale environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $203391 from 376 postings across 52 companies.
Remote (San Francisco, CA)80 days ago
$197,300–$313,700
Istio
Envoy
Kubernetes
Golang
Java
C++
AWS
GCP
Terraform
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Service Mesh
TCP/IP
DNS
TLS
HTTP Proxies
Spinnaker
Linux
UNIX
Agile