Staff Software Engineer (Event Logging)

• The event logging team owns Airbnb’s platform for capturing user activity events, from page views and searches to backend events, across every client and backend service

• We turn raw user activity logs into high-quality data that is available both near-real-time and long-term, and we’re building on top of that platform to enable a seamless experience for nearly every engineering team at Airbnb to produce and consume event data

• As a member of a diverse and distributed team, you’ll draw on deep backend expertise to drive the technical direction of event logging at Airbnb — owning initiatives that span our logging platform and shaping where it goes next

• You’ll partner with and influence teams across the company to identify the highest-impact opportunities in the logging space, set a clear technical vision, and guide its delivery through products and tooling that change how every team produces and consumes event data

• 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

Benefits

• Paid volunteer time

• Health food and snacks

• Generous parental and family leave

• Learning and development

• Annual travel and experiences credit- Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization

• Strong communication, organizational, and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams

• 9+ years of industry engineering experience

• Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in event logging and observability, preferred

• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems

• Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for software development

• 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