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:
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.
The Difference You Will Make:
As a member of a diverse and distributed team, you’ll be expected to leverage your expertise in both frontend and backend development to play a key role in building products that accelerate event logging at Airbnb. You will work closely with our partner teams to identify new opportunities in the logging space, then design and implement improvements to products and tooling that have a meaningful impact on the way teams produce and consume logs.
A Typical Day:
- Work with partner teams at Airbnb to understand their pain points, prototype proposed solutions, and drive adoption of logging products and tooling.
- Create and present your own design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
- Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
- Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality, tested pull requests and reviewing other’s designs and code.
- Build appropriate tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices, particularly in the logging and observability space.
Your Expertise:
- 5+ years of industry engineering experience
- Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in event logging and observability, preferred
- Strong communication and organizational skills with cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in modern frontend technologies—including HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, frameworks like React or Angular, and frontend architecture (build tools, reusable components).
- Expertise in one or more backend/server languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C++, etc.) and experience designing and scaling high-quality, high-traffic backend services
- Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth
Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.