Staff Software Engineer – Events Logging
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Staff Software Engineer driving technical direction of event logging at Airbnb. Collaborating across teams to shape logging products and solutions while mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with a wide variety of partner teams to understand their pain points, prototype proposed solutions, and drive adoption of logging products and tooling.
- Own the technical direction and roadmap for a major area of the logging platform, aligning it with broader organizational priorities.
- Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
- Create and present design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, particularly in the logging and observability space.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
Requirements:
- 9+ years of industry engineering experience
- Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in event logging and observability, preferred
- Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
- Deep expertise in one or more backend/server languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++) and a track record of architecting high-traffic backend systems
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems
- Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for software development.
- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization.
Benefits:
- bonuses
- equity
- benefits
- Employee Travel Credits


















