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Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Payments team, you will design and maintain systems that improve observability, reliability, and scalability of Airbnb's payments platform. You'll collaborate across teams to drive root-cause fixes, build AI-driven automations, and lead initiatives that promote a culture of reliability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in back-end software development focusing on large-scale distributed systems
• BE/B.Tech in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong software development skills in Java, Python, Kotlin, Scala, or Ruby on Rails
• Experience building intelligent AI agents and systems powered by LLMs is a plus
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large high-scale web applications
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP
• Deep understanding of software development best practices including version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and code reviews
• Experience in incident management, monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis
• Effective leadership and communication skills for cross-functional coordination
• Experience with auto-scaling, self-healing, chaos engineering, performance optimization is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain systems and tools for flow-level observability and payments reliability
• Identify and drive improvements to increase Payments Availability, Observability, and Resiliency
• Develop observability standards/framework for new product readiness
• Build Domain Expertise for Scalability in Payments processing, compliance, and infra
• Drive large scale migration and adoption projects on Observability and Reliability
• Lead initiatives to promote a culture of reliability and improve incident management platforms
• Continuously evaluate new technologies including AI/ML for Observability and Reliability
• Drive root-cause fixes independently