Airbnb, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a platform that enables hosts to offer stays and experiences to guests worldwide. The company's marketplace model connects hosts and guests online or through mobile devices to book spaces and experiences. It primarily offers private rooms, primary homes, or vacation homes. The company was formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc. and changed its name to Airbnb, Inc. in November 2010. Airbnb, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: The Online Data organization ensures Airbnb customers are delighted in experiences backed by real-time data. We empower Airbnb’s builders to create these experiences by offering intuitive data interfaces and tools without the need to be database experts. We’re hiring across multiple teams within our organization. Explore the section below to learn more about each team and the opportunities available. The Transactional Storage Services team sits within Airbnb’s Online Data organization that owns all of Airbnb's online serving stores and databases. The group is responsible for designing, building and operating a new source-of-truth, open-source NewSql database running on top of stateful Kubernetes that hosts all the critical Airbnb user, listing and financial data, with all the essential DB capabilities on such as backup restore, CDC, multi-tenancy.&nbsp; The mission of the DBExports team in the Online Database Infrastructure org is to provide a managed, reliable, performant and scalable platform for exporting data out of Airbnb’s online databases for offline processing. The team currently builds and operates two managed solutions - one for near real time access to change logs (CDC) and another to provide periodic mutation and full table snapshots. The UDS (Unified Data Store) team within Airbnb's Online Data org owns and operates the platform that stores critical user, listing, and financial data for more than 150 million users and hosts worldwide. As a member of this team, you will serve as a technical expert in transactional databases and high-performance infrastructure service. You will also collaborate with product teams to drive the effective use of the service, focusing on performance optimization, reliability, and scalability. The Difference You Will Make: Be hands-on (code, design, test) and collaborate with cross team partners (internal customers, dependencies and leadership) to deliver on multi-month projects in a timely fashion. Design frameworks and maintain the general ecosystem around our NewSql database’s monitoring, permissions, service discovery integration, etc. Empower and simplify the way engineers at Airbnb define and manage data by building and operating a generalized data schematization solution for a wide variety of storage backends at Airbnb and be able to satisfy broad compliance requirements. Your Expertise: 5+ years of experience building and operating large scale core backend distributed systems like storage, data ingestion, backup and restore, streaming. Ability to own and dive deeply in a complex code base. Experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging production systems Knack for writing clean, readable, testable, maintainable code. Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-working environment. Demonstrate strong ownership and consistently deliver in a timely manner. &nbsp; Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$191,000&mdash;$225,000 USD

Senior Software Engineer, Storage

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: The Online Data organization ensures Airbnb customers are delighted in experiences backed by real-time data. We empower Airbnb’s builders to create these experiences by offering intuitive data interfaces and tools without the need to be database experts.&nbsp; The Difference You Will Make: The KV Stores &amp; Caching team within Airbnb's Online Data org owns and operates critical pieces of Airbnb's online serving storage systems. Specifically, the team owns and is responsible for: A highly available, low-latency, distributed, multi-tenant KV store for Airbnb. This platform is used by user profiling, Search, ML, and pricing teams, supporting millions of read QPS and providing 99.9+% availability across thousands of customer tables. A set of control planes and clients that manage ElasticCache clusters for hundreds of Airbnb production clusters, at million+ IOPS and million+ indexing QPS. A scalable, reliable, performant distributed coordination service supporting many mission-critical systems (MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Druid, Zookeeper, etc). A Typical Day:&nbsp; As Technical Lead, you will drive the technical vision and execution for our KV stores and caching infrastructure. You will mentor engineers, shape architectural decisions, and ensure the team delivers high-impact solutions. Examples of the types of challenges you will lead include: Defining the multi-year technical roadmap for caching and KV infrastructure at Airbnb Evolving our KV store from derived-data workloads to support system-of-record use cases, expanding the platform's capabilities and customer base Building a multi-tenant caching solution for Airbnb Guiding the rearchitecture of our KV write path to remove infrastructure complexity while improving replication lag Overseeing frameworks for high-traffic, zero-downtime migrations between critical data platforms Your Expertise: 9+ years of relevant industry experience Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers. Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems. Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy. Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability. Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same. Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.&nbsp;Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$204,000&mdash;$255,000 USD

Staff Software Engineer (Technical Lead), Storage

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join:&nbsp; The AirCover Claim Platform team at Airbnb is responsible for providing comprehensive protection for both guests and hosts. We manage the AirCover program, which includes Host Liability Insurance, Experience Liability Insurance, and Host Damage Protection. Our team ensures that hosts are protected against scenarios such as guest-caused damage and deep cleaning needs, and we support guests with rebooking, refunds, and safety assistance. The Difference You Will Make: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer who is passionate about making a difference through their work. As a Senior Software Engineer on the AirCover Claim Platform team, you will play a pivotal role in building and advancing the platform that powers comprehensive protection for Airbnb’s hosts, guests, and agents. You will help shape the technical vision and deliver flexible, scalable solutions that enhance efficiency and improve experiences across our global community. This is an exceptional opportunity to make a tangible impact and accelerate your growth as an engineer; you will take on complex challenges and drive projects that deliver measurable improvements for our users and create significant business value. A Typical Day:&nbsp; Collaborate with cross-functional partners such as Product, Operations, and Engineers to design and deliver high-quality products Work closely with engineers on the team to develop core backend and platform solutions Architect and implement complex features with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time Lead and participate in design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions to mentor others and foster continuous learning Your Expertise: 7+ years of software development experience, or 5+ years with an advanced degree Proficiency in one or more backend languages and frameworks such as Kotlin, Java, or Python Experience architecting and building solutions to large-scale, complex problems, including APIs, data pipelines, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact Comfortable working across the backend stack to solve technical challenges Strong communication skills; able to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders Proven ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.&nbsp;Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list&nbsp;. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at:&nbsp;reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application. How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp; How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$191,000&mdash;$223,000 USD

Senior Software Engineer, Aircover Claim Platform

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: You’ll join Airbnb’s App Foundation team, a cross-platform team that builds high quality and performant capabilities that power almost all features in the Guest and Host ecosystem.&nbsp; We focus on building App Product Frameworks,&nbsp; Insights &amp; Logging, Performance &amp; App Health, and Feature Architecture, partnering closely with Product, Design, Platform (iOS/Android/Web), Analytics Infrastructure, Data Platform, and peer Product Foundation teams to provide cohesive paved paths and standards at scale. Our culture values technical excellence, pragmatic decision-making, strong ownership, and a deep commitment to improving developer and user experience through foundational work. The Difference You Will Make: Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale Build efficient and reusable backend capabilities, with high quality, while making sure to maintain performance and scalable systems. Lead initiatives that measurably improve Guest and Host experience by improving&nbsp; app responsiveness, scale efficiently and reliability across key backend paths that impact millions. Drive a performance roadmap: identifying bottlenecks, prioritizing work by impact, and delivering improvements across services, data access patterns, and infrastructure. Raise the bar on performance engineering by building tooling, benchmarks, and guardrails that prevent regressions and make performance a first-class part of how teams ship. Influence architecture and standards across Airbnb’s backend ecosystem, making systems more observable, more efficient, and easier to evolve. A Typical Day:&nbsp; Millions of users across the world engage with the Airbnb app in multiple languages every day. As an engineer on the App Foundation team, you would be critical to the continued success and broad appeal of Airbnb. In this role, you will have an opportunity to:&nbsp; Work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners, to define and ship impactful features.&nbsp; Propose architectural patterns of a high-scale applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code Review service-level performance metrics and triage anomalies or regressions. Profile and debug performance issues across service boundaries and implement fixes (e.g., query optimization, caching strategies, concurrency improvements, payload reduction). Partner with engineers across teams to improve critical request flows - aligning on SLOs, rollout plans, and measurement strategies. Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions with a performance lens, helping teams ship changes safely and efficiently Document learnings and create playbooks so performance improvements scale beyond a single service or team. Your Expertise: 5+ years of software development experience Strong expertise in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Kotlin/C++/etc.) Experience in building and scaling high-quality and high-traffic products (or systems) &nbsp;in a distributed manner. Deep backend expertise, including proficiency with databases, cloud technologies, and asynchronous messaging systems. End-to-end ownership mentality that transcends team boundaries.&nbsp; Passion for building strong collaborative relationships with other engineering &amp; product partners Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact Able to self-serve on data analysis and make data driven decisions Rigorous attention to detail and the ability to tackle ambiguous problems Embrace the ever changing culture, prioritize breadth over then in-depth but can still go in-depth when needed. Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.&nbsp;Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$191,000&mdash;$223,000 USD

Senior Software Engineer, App Foundation (Backend)

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: The CRM Engineering team builds world-class tools that drive growth and foster meaningful relationships between Airbnb and its community, including Hosts, Guests, Law Enforcement, Government Regulators, Local Community Leaders, and more. This team tackles some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business. Here are a few examples: Growth Platform: Designed to increase supply and retain existing hosts. Policy Platform: Enables Airbnb to engage with regulatory bodies across the globe regarding short-term rental regulations. This platform tracks regulations that impact the Airbnb business and provides intelligence to address unique business challenges. Community Platform: Establishes a social platform to drive community enablement, collaboration, and success. Agent Tools: Empowers agents to understand and resolve issues that customers are unable to address on their own. Aircover Claims Platform: Facilitates the processing of claims for Aircover insurance products, offering protection to both hosts and guests. The Difference You Will Make: The Community Platform team is building a groundbreaking social platform aimed at delivering a differentiated service to our community. This platform will empower local communities to collaborate, support community leaders, host local and global events, provide improved resources, drive engagement, mobilize the community, and offer direct feedback to Airbnb. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Full Stack engineer who is passionate about making a difference through their work. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, efficient and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb. A Typical Day:&nbsp; Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build novel products and features Drive, lead, and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks. Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction. Your Expertise: 6+ years of full software development experience Proficient in at least one major programming language (preferably Java / Kotlin / Scala / Ruby on Rails / Python). Passion for delivering products end-to-end: from ideation through planning and scoping to implementation and experimental A/B testing. Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms. Passionate about design and building UX products. You bring flexibility to collaboration with design and product partners by presenting tradeoffs and iterating to the ideal solution. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and detail oriented. Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.

Senior Software Engineer, BizTech

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company. The Difference You Will Make: Our mission is to make every Airbnb engineer's day better by building world-class developer infrastructure that removes friction and provides the tools to unlock their best work. The Dev AI team specifically builds the foundational AI tooling and infrastructure that powers developer productivity across the entire software development lifecycle, also providing the building blocks for teams across the company to quickly and simply create their own domain-specific AI tools. We currently serve as both a platform team and an internal AI consultancy for partner teams building their own internally-facing AI-powered solutions.&nbsp; In this role, you will help to shape and execute the technical direction of the team's infrastructure and products. You'll work across a range of exciting problem spaces, from agentic coding tools and asynchronous AI workflow platforms, to SDKs for rapid internal AI app development and AI-assisted code migration. At Airbnb, you won't just build AI tools; your work will shape how individuals across the company work every day. The tools you create will directly accelerate the pace of innovation across our entire product surface. We're a collaborative, low-ego, and highly-visible team that values experimentation, learning, and shipping. We celebrate what works and learn quickly from what doesn't. Given the rapid evolution of AI, we strive to operate with startup-like agility, iterating swiftly to evaluate and incorporate the most recent AI technologies into our developer tooling. If you enjoy building, collaborating across teams, thrive when given high autonomy, and are motivated to make the lives of other developers easier and more enjoyable, we’d love to hear from you. A Typical Day:&nbsp; Help shape and drive our AI for Developers strategy, from ideation through shipping, while bringing strong sense of ownership and coding across various stacks Make pragmatic architectural and technical decisions, balancing ambition with real-world constraints and long-term operability Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape, and help the team balance innovation with incremental, measurable developer impact Serve as a champion, expert, coach, and consultant to empower teams and leaders across the company to adopt and leverage new AI capabilities in their day to day workflows Champion engineering excellence through high-quality code, thoughtful design, and reliable systems Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence for the team's platform components Your Expertise: 5+ years industry experience (or equivalent depth of expertise) Prior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale and with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industry Hands-on experience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challenges A track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages — and a genuine excitement for continuous learning Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skills&nbsp; Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Typescript, or Kotlin Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience &nbsp; Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$191,000&mdash;$225,000 USD

Senior Software Engineer, Dev AI, Developer Infrastructure

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.Location This role should be based in China Mainland, working remotely. No Relocation and Visa Support. The Community You Will Join The Notifications team at Airbnb is dedicated to designing and building the core notification systems that deliver seamless and effective notification experiences to our guests and hosts globally.&nbsp;We collaborate with product teams across the company to understand notification needs and empower them through scalable solutions.&nbsp;By leveraging modern technology and thoughtful governance, we strive to enhance guest and host engagement, minimize user fatigue, and drive meaningful business outcomes. The Difference You Will Make We are looking for backend engineers who are passionate about building reliable systems and delivering user impact through their work. You will work in a global collaboration environment to turn product and engineering ideas into production systems. You will contribute to the development and evolution of our notification platform, help improve delivery timing and channel selection, and build scalable solutions that support product teams across Airbnb. A Typical Day Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners to understand requirements, prioritize work, and scope projects within your team’s roadmap. Contribute to technical design discussions and align implementation details with teammates and partner teams. Write clean, testable, and maintainable code to build backend services and platform capabilities. Participate in on-call rotation and contribute to operational excellence by improving runbooks, monitoring, and rollback readiness. Debug production issues, follow through on fixes, and improve system reliability in the areas you own. Mentor newer engineers within the team through code reviews, design discussions, and day-to-day collaboration. Your Expertise 3+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role, or equivalent practical experience. Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience. Proficiency in one or more JVM-based languages such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala. Experience building backend systems or services in a service-oriented or distributed systems environment. Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders. Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions. Fluent communication in both English and Chinese.

Software Engineer, Guest & Host - Notifications

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company. The Difference You Will Make: Our mission is to make every Airbnb engineer's day better by building world-class developer infrastructure that removes friction and provides the tools to unlock their best work. The Dev AI team specifically builds the foundational AI tooling and infrastructure that powers developer productivity across the entire software development lifecycle, also providing the building blocks for teams across the company to quickly and simply create their own domain-specific AI tools. We currently serve as both a platform team and an internal AI consultancy for partner teams building their own internally-facing AI-powered solutions.&nbsp; In this role, you will help to shape and execute the technical direction of the team's infrastructure and products. You'll work across a range of exciting problem spaces, from agentic coding tools and asynchronous AI workflow platforms, to SDKs for rapid internal AI app development and AI-assisted code migration. At Airbnb, you won't just build AI tools; your work will shape how individuals across the company work every day. The tools you create will directly accelerate the pace of innovation across our entire product surface. We're a collaborative, low-ego, and highly-visible team that values experimentation, learning, and shipping. We celebrate what works and learn quickly from what doesn't. Given the rapid evolution of AI, we strive to operate with startup-like agility, iterating swiftly to evaluate and incorporate the most recent AI technologies into our developer tooling. If you enjoy building, collaborating across teams, thrive when given high autonomy, and are motivated to make the lives of other developers easier and more enjoyable, we’d love to hear from you. A Typical Day:&nbsp; Help shape and drive our AI for Developers strategy, from ideation through shipping, while bringing strong sense of ownership and coding across various stacks Make pragmatic architectural and technical decisions, balancing ambition with real-world constraints and long-term operability Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape, and help the team balance innovation with incremental, measurable developer impact Serve as a champion, expert, coach, and consultant to empower teams and leaders across the company to adopt and leverage new AI capabilities in their day to day workflows Champion engineering excellence through high-quality code, thoughtful design, and reliable systems Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence for the team's platform components Your Expertise: 9+ years industry experience (or equivalent depth of expertise) Prior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale and with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industry Hands-on experience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challenges A track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages — and a genuine excitement for continuous learning Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skills&nbsp; Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Typescript, or Kotlin Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience &nbsp; Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$204,000&mdash;$255,000 USD

Staff Software Engineer, Dev AI, Developer Infrastructure

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: Viaduct is a unified data access layer connecting most of Airbnb’s online data. More than 70% of Airbnb’s API traffic flows through the Viaduct platform.&nbsp; Residing at the center of Airbnb’s tech stack between the user-facing products and backend infrastructure, Viaduct provides a global schema &amp; query system through a GraphQL interface.&nbsp; Our team mission: “Empower app developers at Airbnb by delivering a seamless and efficient developer experience. We strive to maximize productivity and spark creativity through simplified APIs, improved performance, and the cultivation of tenant team autonomy.” The Viaduct team is a very tenured and experienced team, setting the best practices and next-gen architecture for Airbnb. As part of the Application Platform pillar of Infrastructure, we work closely with partner infra teams (Build Infra, Service Platform, CI/CD, Reliability, Observability, Developer Platform to name a few) as well as product engineers. We treat our platform as a product and follow the principles of good Platform Engineering Viaduct has been running in production for over six years and the team has gained a lot of experience in operating a GraphQL platform at scale. These insights informed the major rewrite - called Viaduct Modern - which we’re in the process of launching and continue to evolve. You will join the effort to create the best developer experience of hundreds of engineers at Airbnb using our revolutionary GraphQL platform.&nbsp; Viaduct has been released as an Open Source project. Your contributions to the Viaduct platform will not only serve Airbnb-internal developers, but also any member of the Open Source community who chooses to adopt Viaduct. The Difference You Will Make: Drive platform reliability and operational excellence by designing and implementing deployment pipelines, SLO frameworks, observability tooling, performance improvements, and AI-enabled incident response automation that help maintain Viaduct's 99.99% uptime target across Airbnb's critical API traffic. Contribute to runtime resiliency initiatives including resource attribution, performance regression testing, and proactive monitoring to ensure the multi-tenant GraphQL platform scales efficiently and degrades gracefully under load. Architect and deliver AI-powered operational tooling that accelerates incident triage, reduces mean-time-to-mitigation, and empowers both the Viaduct team and tenant engineers with self-service debugging capabilities. Shape the future of Viaduct Modern by contributing to the next-generation architecture, improving developer experience for hundreds of engineers, and establishing patterns that will be shared with the open-source community. A Typical Day:&nbsp; Embrace an AI-first engineering approach, using LLM-powered agents to generate and iterate on code while you focus on problem-solving, system design, and quality oversight. Investigate and resolve complex production issues by analyzing distributed traces, resource utilization patterns, and system metrics to identify root causes and implement durable fixes. Design and implement observability features including span instrumentation, SLO dashboards, and fine-grained attribution for blocking time, memory, and CPU across tenant workloads. Develop and iterate on tooling for deployment triage, service health monitoring, and incident response automation using LLM capabilities. Lead technical design discussions and RFCs for initiatives like performance regression testing pipelines, emergency deployment workflows, and runtime resiliency improvements. Partner with tenant teams to debug performance issues, provide guidance on GraphQL best practices, and enable self-service capabilities for common operational tasks. Contribute to open-source Viaduct by ensuring platform improvements are generalizable and well-documented for the broader engineering community. Your Expertise: 9+ years of software engineering experience, with significant depth in backend systems, distributed architectures, and platform engineering. Deep expertise in observability and monitoring, including experience designing SLO frameworks, distributed tracing systems, and metrics pipelines at scale. Proven track record in reliability engineering, with hands-on experience in incident response, root cause analysis, and building systems that maintain high availability (99.99%+). Strong experience with performance tuning and resource management in JVM-based systems, including profiling, garbage collection optimization, and understanding of concurrency models (blocking I/O, thread pools, coroutines in Kotlin). Experience operating critical, high-traffic systems with a focus on deployment safety, automated rollbacks, and progressive delivery strategies. Familiarity with GraphQL or similar API gateway/data access layer technologies Experience building developer tooling and platforms, with a product mindset focused on developer experience and self-service capabilities. Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to partner effectively across infrastructure and product engineering teams. Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$204,000&mdash;$255,000 USD

Staff Software Engineer, GraphQL

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 in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.The Community You Will Join: Our Product Managers imagine the ideal experience for our community and work backwards, creating innovative products that delight our guests and hosts. They deeply understand the needs of our users and translate these into a strategy that combines strong product thinking and deep research. They partner with talented cross-functional team members across engineering, design, operations, data science, and more, leading teams to execute a shared vision. They are incredibly detail-oriented and hands on. The Difference You Will Make: Lead the vision and execution of a global, campaign-based merchandising platform that powers the discovery and promotion of Airbnb’s offerings and promotions—including Homes, Services, Experiences, Hotels, and new verticals—across all app and engagement channels. You will drive the orchestration of targeted, measurable campaigns, partner with creative and operations teams to launch tentpole and regional initiatives, and leverage AI to optimize campaign development and efficiency. Your work will directly deliver incremental revenue, expand new business lines, and delight guests at every step of their journey. A Typical Day:&nbsp; Lead the product vision, strategy, and platform roadmap that supports the merchandising needs of key business verticals (e.g. Homes, Services, Experiences, International) and new bets (e.g. Hotels, Luxe, Partnerships) Build and scale a flexible, configurable platform for rapid testing and deployment of merchandising formats and offers/incentives. Incorporate the latest AI technologies to automate targeting, creative asset generation, and campaign management. Define and measure campaign performance, revenue lift, and guest engagement. Partner with creative and operations teams to manage campaign calendars, assets, and global coordination. Efficiently execute to ship products and deliver impact for our business and users. Your Expertise: 8+ years of product management experience, ideally in building platforms and campaign based marketing technology or ads /promotions systems. Familiarity with AI automation in campaign management. Track record of driving incremental revenue and scaling global programs. Entrepreneurial experience of taking an idea to reality. Demonstrated track record of building cross-functional and executive leadership alignment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Desire to do individual contributor product management work. Your Location: Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant will need to be based in San Francisco, CA to be able to conduct their work. Currently, employees can not be located in: Alaska, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Delaware And Rhode Island. This list is continuously being updated, please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. &nbsp;If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.&nbsp; Our Commitment To Inclusion &amp; Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.&nbsp; We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. &nbsp;Pay Range$194,000&mdash;$239,000 USD

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