Staff Software Engineer, GraphQL at Airbnb

This role is for a heavyweight backend engineer with at least nine years of experience specializing in high-traffic distributed systems and JVM-based infrastructure. You need to be deeply comfortable with observability frameworks, performance tuning in Kotlin or Java, and the internal mechanics of API gateways. **What makes it worth a look...** The compensation is competitive for a remote US role, and you get to work on a high-scale open-source project that sits at the literal center of the company's tech stack. Beyond the $255,000 base, the package includes equity and employee travel credits to help you use the product you are building. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have scaled JVM systems focusing on garbage collection and concurrency models. * Built observability tooling or SLO frameworks for platforms with 99.99% uptime requirements. * Want to integrate LLM-powered agents into the internal developer experience and incident response. * Are comfortable contributing to and maintaining a public open-source repository.