Principal Software Engineer, Performance

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Full time
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docker aws kubernetes instrumentation jvm

📋 Description

  • Define and drive Airbnb's long-term performance strategy for scale.
  • Lead perf profiling and instrumentation architecture for CPU, GPU, memory, and requests.
  • Partner with infra teams to optimize fleet utilization.
  • Tie performance outcomes to business goals and SLOs; guide scalability.
  • Build self-serve performance insights tooling for backend teams.
  • Set strategy as TL and build systems that make performance a default.

🎯 Requirements

  • 12+ years of performance engineering in high-scale production environments.
  • Deep understanding of software-hardware interactions at scale (kernel/JVM/postmortems).
  • Cloud familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Experience with profiling and instrumentation across CPU, GPU, memory, and tracing.
  • Define performance objectives and drive delivery against company-wide SLOs.
  • Ability to influence teams beyond direct reports and mentor engineers.
  • Strong communication and influence to drive technical direction with leadership.

🎁 Benefits

  • US remote-eligible; occasional office visits; must live in eligible state.
  • Bonus, equity, benefits, and Travel Credits may apply.
  • Disability accommodations available for applicants.
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