Airbnb
Senior
Build the internal tooling engineers use to monitor, investigate, and debug Airbnb's production systems
Airbnb's Reliability Experience team builds the opinionated UX layer on top of Reliability Engineering — the internal tools every platform, infra, and product engineer at Airbnb uses to understand production health and triage incidents. This interview looks for a senior backend or fullstack engineer with 5+ years who has built internal infrastructure (ideally in data or observability) and can operate with high autonomy, acting as their own product manager.
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What this interview tests
- Building internal developer/observability tooling
- Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent observability stack experience
- Self-directed scoping without a dedicated PM
- Asynchronous programming and core data structures
- Design/architecture documentation and cross-team collaboration
- Cross-timezone collaboration
Common question themes
Design an internal tool to help engineers triage a production incident faster
Tell me about a time you had to define a problem yourself with no PM support
How would you instrument a service so engineers can debug it in production
Walk through a design doc you wrote and how it changed after review
Describe working effectively with collaborators across multiple time zones