Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Airbnb in Remote

Summary: Airbnb, founded in 2007, has grown to over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals worldwide. The company is seeking a Software Engineer for Infrastructure to enhance the search experience by improving system reliability and performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Responsibilities: - Work on search infrastructure engineering projects to improve search experience, in collaboration with product teams - Up-level search system reliability, scalability and performance, in collaboration with Infrastructure teams - Use the data in the Knowledge Graph to power rich product use-cases and also enrich the existing data based on measurement - Build the next generation search platform to power different products at Airbnb, including typeahead, contextualizing and personalizing search results - A large chunk of focused time to implement important components of the search platform, with GitHub Copilot as your assistant - Analyze large amounts of data, build hypotheses, experiment, learn and iterate - Give technical presentations/proposals to partners, add documentation about existing systems - Discuss with cross-functional partners (e.g., product managers, designers) on the technical design of an exciting new search feature - Attend an in-person gathering with team members and partners Required Qualifications: - BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics is required - Exceptional coding skills in Java and Python and clear understanding of Algorithms/Data structures - This position requires 80% of the time coding - Analyzing and deriving insights from large data sets by applying simple ML techniques is required Preferred Qualifications: - Willingness to try, experiment and learn new concepts with a positive attitude to work is highly desirable - Open source committers to Lucene/ElasticSearch are very welcome! - Good technical writing skills are desirable - New Graduates may also apply if able to provide evidence of having written large amounts of code/building systems Required Skills: Java, Python, Algorithms, Data structures, Machine learning, Lucene, ElasticSearch Benefits: Bonus, Equity, Benefits, Employee Travel Credits