Staff Software Engineer – Events Logging

Airbnb

Staff Software Engineer driving technical direction of event logging at Airbnb. Collaborating across teams to shape logging products and solutions while mentoring engineers.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $212,000 - $265,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaKotlin

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

bonuses
equity
benefits
Employee Travel Credits

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaKotlinC++backend developmentevent loggingobservabilityscalable codeiterative developmentarchitecture designtechnical documentation

Soft Skills

communicationorganizational skillscollaborationmentoringknowledge sharingcontinuous learninginfluencing strategyproblem-solvingpersonal growthcross-functional teamwork