Senior Systems Engineer, Payments @ Airbnb
placeBengaluru, Karnataka, India
attach_money $150,000
businessOn Site
scheduleFull Time
Posted 11 hours ago
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***** @airbnb.com
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Job Details
About Airbnb
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals worldwide. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that foster authentic connections with communities.
Role Overview
The Senior Systems Engineer, Payments at Airbnb is part of the Payments Tech Operations team. This team builds a world-class payments platform that processes billions of dollars across 191 countries and 75 currencies. The role focuses on enhancing observability, ensuring site reliability, and leading automation initiatives in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
What You Will Do
- Drive flow level observability strategy and instrumentation.
- Lead initiatives to identify and fix recurring issues.
- Develop and maintain proactive alerting and real-time monitoring tools.
- Create observability standards for new product readiness in distributed systems.
- Collaborate with multiple teams across engineering, infrastructure, and operations.
- Automate alerts configuration across multiple observability tools such as DataDog, Kibana, and Open Telemetry.
- Advocate for reliable design patterns like circuit breakers and graceful degradation.
- Participate in blameless post-mortem analyses to learn from incidents.
About You
- 8+ years of technical experience with at least 5 years in a fast-paced tech environment.
- Expertise in building Observability, SRE, and reliability tools, preferably in payments.
- Proven skills in leading technical initiatives and managing operational health programs.
- Strong knowledge of observability tools (e.g., DataDog, Open Telemetry) and programming languages like Java, .Net, or Python.
- Experience with automation, chaos engineering, and performance optimization is a plus.
- Excellent communication skills and cross-timezone collaboration experience.
Key skills/competency
- Observability
- SRE
- Reliability
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Microservices
- Payments
- Java
- Python
- DataDog
How to Get Hired at Airbnb
🎯 Tips for Getting Hired
- Research Airbnb's culture: Study mission, values, and recent news.
- Customize your resume: Emphasize SRE and observability experience.
- Showcase technical projects: Detail automation and monitoring achievements.
- Practice behavioral interviews: Prepare examples of cross-team collaboration.
- Engage on LinkedIn: Network with current Airbnb engineers.
📝 Interview Preparation Advice
Technical Preparation
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Review DataDog and Open Telemetry tools.
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Study automation and alert configuration techniques.
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Practice building monitoring tools using programming languages.
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Refresh concepts in distributed systems and microservices.
Behavioral Questions
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Describe a time you led a challenging project.
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Explain collaboration across timezones with diverse teams.
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Discuss handling high-pressure production on-call scenarios.
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Share an experience solving recurring technical issues.
Frequently Asked Questions
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