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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating service-mesh infrastructure, including routing, security, and multi-region failover, while leading and mentoring engineering teams to achieve operational excellence and high-scale system performance.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Service-Mesh Infrastructure DesignHigh-Scale Distributed SystemsIncident ManagementTeam LeadershipSLOs/SLAs Tracking
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills
Software DevelopmentNetworking SystemsLoad BalancingAccess ControlTraffic FailoverRoutingCloud-Native EngineeringData-Informed ImprovementsCapacity PlanningChange Management
Soft Skills
Excellent CommunicationProblem-SolvingTeam CollaborationMentoring
Tools & Technologies
IstioEnvoyEdge ProxiesDNSCDNNetwork Gateways
Industry Keywords
Service DiscoveryDisaster RecoveryCross-Region GatewaysEdge SecurityOperational Rigor
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudDistributed SystemsDNS
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define and deliver the roadmap for mesh capabilities, including routing, security, policy, resilience, and multi-region failover
- Set and track SLOs/SLAs for availability and performance and drive data-informed improvements
- Build and mentor a strong engineering team and establish engineering excellence, code health, and operational rigor
- Align with Security, Edge/Traffic, Compute, and Developer Platform on cross-cutting initiatives and standards
- Mature incident management, post-incident learning, change management, and safe rollout practices
- Plan capacity and investments to meet growth while optimizing efficiency and cost
- Design, build, and operate critical service-mesh infrastructure for service discovery, load balancing, access control, traffic failover, and routing
- Contribute to global traffic load balancing, disaster recovery, next-generation service mesh, cross-region gateways, and edge security initiatives
- Collaborate with the open-source community and peer companies on cloud-native engineering challenges at scale
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
- Experience running large scale networking systems and software, such as edge proxies, DNS, CDN, or network gateways
- Experience with Istio and Envoy is a plus
- Strong ownership and experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within a team and across engineering teams
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience leading a team that is on-call for production infrastructure
- Passion for efficiency, availability, technical quality, and system quality
- Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
Benefits
Comp & perks- Bonus eligibility
- Equity eligibility
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
- Remote work eligibility
- Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities