Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe

Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

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. Airbnbs various functions embody the companys innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

The Networking team within Airbnb’s Cloud Infrastructure org owns the entire Airbnb production network infrastructure The group is responsible for designing, building and operating the software and solutions that connect all Airbnb users and services, such as traffic proxy and load balancer, service mesh, VPC/backbone and cross-region connectivity, network monitoring and security systems

With users around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency and high availability are our team’s core concerns.

The Difference You Will Make

As a member of the network team, you will be working with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies of cloud native network stack from Layer3 to Layer 7 You will contribute to the key infrastructure components that connect all Airbnb users and services across the globe

You will have the chance to define and influence large infrastructure initiatives such as global traffic load balancing and disaster recovery, next-gen service mesh, cross-region gateways and edge security etc.

Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) end user community, and we work closely with the open source community (e.g. k8s, istio) and peer companies to tackle cloud native engineering challenges at scale. You will also have the chance to make an impact on the industry and open source communities.

A Typical Day

Work with open source communities (e.g. istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services; Build the cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services; Work with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airb