Staff Software Engineer, Build - Careers

Airbnb

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$204,000–$255,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago

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Above market

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This role $230k
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This role pays more than 86% of similar roles. Most pay $160,850–$214,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $230k versus about $188k for comparable roles.

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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 75 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $204,000–$255,000 across 45 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Build - Careers

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As a Senior Developer Infrastructure Engineer in Airbnb’s CI+Build team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the productivity of engineers and AI agents by building and maintaining world-class build systems at scale. Your daily responsibilities include architecting improvements to Bazel installations and remote build/cache infrastructure for better correctness, reproducibility, and speed, setting technical roadmaps, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, driving cross-organizational alignment on build system investments, mentoring senior engineers, and ensuring operational excellence. You will work with complex application architectures of internal backend services and collaborate closely with security teams to optimize build processes. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of industry experience, expertise in Bazel and related concepts, a metrics-driven approach, and strong cross-organizational collaboration skills.

Skills

Bazel CI/CD Kubernetes Docker Terraform AWS Git Python Go Prometheus Grafana SQL PostgreSQL Redis Linux DevOps Microservices REST GraphQL

What you'll do

  • Define and deliver world-class build systems at Airbnb’s scale.
  • Set technical roadmap for software build system reliability and performance.
  • Diagnose and resolve build performance bottlenecks to accelerate development velocity.
  • Drive organizational alignment on build system investments across multiple teams.
  • Serve as the technical authority on build systems, setting standards and mentoring.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of industry experience in software engineering or related field.
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Expertise in Bazel build system including action graph, dependency analysis, and remote caching.
  • Proven ability to drive technical direction and cross-organizational alignment on infrastructure investments.
  • Strong metrics-driven approach with a track record of delivering quantifiable impact.
  • Excellent code review skills and the ability to mentor senior engineers.

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