1 month ago
Base Salary
$248k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for Listings and Quality backend platforms.
- Define APIs, data models, data provenance, and platform contracts for product and AI clients.
- Drive platformization, simplification, self-service capabilities, service consolidation, and major migrations.
- Improve reliability and reduce operational load on systems supporting critical business paths.
- Perform hands-on software development, including design and code reviews.
- Partner with AI Platform, Trust, Infrastructure, and Product teams across Airbnb.
- Mentor and support the career growth of individual contributors.
Requirements
- 12+ years of relevant technology industry experience.
- 4+ years of experience in an Architect or Staff Engineer role with ownership of large-scale software systems.
- Deep backend expertise in distributed systems, data modeling, and API design for large-scale business-critical platforms.
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar programming languages.
- Experience designing APIs and data systems for AI-assisted features and agents, including provenance, validation, and guardrails.
- Demonstrated success setting multi-year technical vision, consolidating services, completing major migrations, or platformizing shared capabilities.
- Strong product and platform judgment, operational mindset, communication, cross-organizational influence, and stakeholder alignment skills.
- Experience mentoring senior and staff engineers and fostering diversity and belonging.
Benefits
- US remote-eligible position, with occasional office or offsite work as agreed with the manager.
- Employees must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity, subject to the current excluded-state list.
- Role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- Airbnb provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment and interview process.
About Airbnb
Airbnb operates a global online marketplace that connects hosts offering homes, rooms, and unique properties with travelers seeking short-term stays and experiences. The company earns revenue primarily through service fees on bookings; founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ABNB) with over 5 million hosts and guest arrivals recorded in nearly every country.