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: 

• 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.

The Community You Will Join:

Core Foundation is a cross‑platform team in Product Foundation that empowers product engineers to build high‑quality, performant features across Android, iOS, and Web. We focus on: Insights & Logging, Performance & App Health, and Feature Architecture, partnering closely with Platform (iOS/Android/Web), Analytics Infrastructure, Data Platform, and peer Product Foundation teams to provide cohesive paved paths and standards at scale.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will lead the team that underpins Airbnb’s foundation solutions for client applications with the instrumentation, performance guardrails, architecture patterns, and developer‑friendly platforms that make durable, scalable product development the default. Your leadership will:

• Define the long term direction for client foundations and shape how product engineering is done across Airbnb.
• Drive adoption of consistent, cross‑platform architecture and best practices for feature development.
• Uplevel performance and app health through guardrails, proactive insights, and paved‑path tooling that shorten feedback loops for product teams.
• Provide a unified, high‑quality event logging experience that enables reliable, data‑driven decisions across surfaces and platforms.

A Typical Day:

• Set vision and multi year tech direction for Core Foundation and translate them into clear roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Drive alignment across Platform, Backend and Data and is accountable for influencing shared standards.
• Partner with iOS/Android/Web Platform, Analytics Infrastructure, Data Platform, and peer Product Foundation teams to align standards, integrate capabilities, and remove friction for product engineers.
• Guide technical staff to enable lint/compilation rules, observability defaults, configuration patterns and drive adoption via documentation, enablement, and hands‑on support.
• Review designs for foundational systems, balancing near‑term delivery with long‑term maintainability and cross‑platform consistency.
• Manage operations and execution excellence: staffing, prioritization, delivery predictability, incident learnings, and iterative quality improvements.
• Recruit, coach, and develop a high‑performing, inclusive team culture; grow senior technical leaders and future managers.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of industry experience with 5+ years in engineering management; demonstrated success leading cross‑functional or cross‑platform foundation/platform teams.
• Proven track record establishing client‑side performance/health practices and observability, and driving adoption of paved‑path tooling and standards at scale.
• Hands‑on background in at least one client platform (iOS, Android, or Web) with fluency in modern app and feature architecture patterns; comfort collaborating across all three.
• Experience building or stewarding event logging/instrumentation platforms and improving data quality for analytics and experimentation.
• Strong cross‑org influence and stakeholder management with Platform, Product, Design, and Data partners; clear, persuasive written and verbal communication.
• Commitment to inclusive leadership, talent development, and building psychologically safe, high‑ownership teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cross‑platform consistency initiatives (e.g., shared patterns, naming, and capabilities) and developer experience investments that accelerate product velocity.
• Familiarity with configuration and server‑driven paradigms and their impact on client architecture and experimentation workflows.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join: 

We are building the next generation of Airbnb experiences for both guests and hosts across Europe and EMEA, with a singular focus: making Airbnb successful in the region's 40+ markets. While our initial focus is on the booking surfaces - payments, search, pricing, and inventory discovery - our charter spans the entire app, and we're empowered to make changes anywhere they're needed to win in the region. As part of the Guest and Host organisation, and in collaboration with engineering teams based in San Francisco and globally, you will focus on enabling localised, trustworthy, and differentiated experiences that reflect how Europeans actually travel and host. You'll be able to work on exciting, innovative, and technically challenging work, supporting a major company strategy.

Software Engineer Role:

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and refinement of major subsystems. Responsibilities include creating and refining product features, ensuring seamless day-to-day operations, identifying patterns for streamlined development, and presenting technical and product insights to stakeholders. At the staff full-stack level, you’ll set a technical vision, delivering flexible, efficient, and scalable solutions aligning with business needs.

Your Impact:

Designing Future States: Shape our technical systems’ future state by aligning high-level product goals with a deep understanding of existing systems, guiding strategic technical and product decisions for both short and long terms.
Leadership in Action: Lead engineers across teams in crafting technical solutions, engaging in the development of product and UX requirements, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Collaboration Champion: Collaborate with various teams - product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and UX - to contribute to the development of efficient solutions and uphold technical quality.

Your Expertise:

Proven Experience: A track record of 9+ years in the software development industry within a fast-paced tech environment.
Backend Proficiency: Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures.
Strategic Decision-Making: Proven ability to exercise sound judgment in making trade-offs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
End-to-End Understanding: Experience with an end-to-end mentality, transcending team boundaries to find globally optimal solutions.
Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills with a history of collaborating effectively within and across engineering teams.
Quality Advocacy: Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality, and user experience, demonstrated through prior projects.
Architectural Excellence: Experience in architectural patterns of high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
Collaborative Background: A track record of successfully working collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, and data science partners.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join

The Airfam Products team exists to make every Airbnb employee more productive through a unified digital headquarters experience. As part of a 10-person cross-functional team of engineers, designers, researchers, and product managers, you'll work on platforms that serve Airbnb's entire global workforce.

Our portfolio includes One Airbnb (the company's internal cultural hub with enterprise search, people profiles, and AI-powered chat), OneChat (Airbnb's enterprise ChatGPT enabling secure LLM interactions), and a suite of tools that power how employees discover information, connect with colleagues, and get work done.

You'll report to the Engineering Manager and partner closely with the Employee Experience Tools & Technologies (TNT) team, Product Managers, UX Designers, and Data Scientists. Our team is at the forefront of AI-powered employee experience innovation, building systems that transform how thousands of employees engage with work daily.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Staff Engineer on the Airfam Products team, you'll be the technical backbone for Airbnb's next generation of AI-powered employee experience platforms. Your work will be a force multiplier for the entire company—every tool you build, every architecture decision you make, and every engineer you mentor will amplify productivity across Airbnb's global workforce.

You will:

• Shape technical vision for platforms that serve 10,000+ employees across multiple regions
• Drive company-wide impact by defining how AI and LLM technologies are integrated into the employee experience
• Elevate engineering excellence by establishing best practices, architectural patterns, and quality standards that influence teams beyond Airfam Products
• Transform prototypes into production by taking AI-powered innovations from concept to enterprise-grade deployment

A Typical Day

• Lead the technical vision and architecture for Airfam Products' platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability across a multi-cloud environment
• Partner with engineering directors and cross-functional leaders to align platform investments with Airbnb's strategic priorities
• Architect and implement production-ready AI/ML-integrated systems, including LLM-powered features for OneChat and enterprise search
• Drive cross-organizational technical initiatives, coordinating with Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams to deliver company-wide solutions
• Mentor and develop engineers across multiple levels (L7-L9), conducting design reviews, architecture discussions, and providing hands-on guidance
• Define and evolve engineering best practices, establishing standards for testing, observability, and operational excellence
• Evaluate emerging technologies and AI development strategies, determining how to leverage innovations like agentic development and coding assistants
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, leading incident response and driving durable remediation through root cause analysis
• Balance hands-on technical contributions (code reviews, system design, debugging) with leadership activities that multiply team effectiveness
• Represent Airbnb engineering at internal forums and, when appropriate, at external conferences and industry events

Your Expertise

Required:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years working on distributed systems at scale
• Track record of leading complex technical initiatives from concept to delivery at cross-team or company-wide scale
• Expert proficiency in modern programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go, or Java
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar), including containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Strong background in API design and implementation (REST, GraphQL), with focus on performance and developer experience
• Demonstrated experience building and optimizing systems that integrate with AI/ML services and LLM technologies
• Experience mentoring engineers at various career stages and driving engineering culture through best practices and documentation
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills with ability to influence without authority across organizational boundaries
• Clear communicator who can translate technical concepts for executives and stakeholders while maintaining technical depth
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred:

• Experience building enterprise-grade internal tools and developer productivity platforms
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Experience with large-scale messaging systems (Kafka) and data pipelines
• Background in frontend technologies (React, Next.js) and full-stack development
• MS in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and agentic development strategies

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Developer Infrastructure organization’s mission is to enable Airbnb engineers and AI Coding Agents to ship high quality software with confidence and speed. We work on infrastructure that accelerates Airbnb’s engineering productivity across all stages of the build/test/deploy software development lifecycle.

The Difference You Will Make:

Build infrastructure has the potential to be one of the highest-leverage investments for our engineering organization as we attempt to accelerate the iteration loop of engineers and AI agents operating within our developer platform. 

To deliver these improvements, you will operate within the CI+Build team, which owns developer infrastructure that includes remote build systems, CI clusters, flaky test management, and merge queues. The team’s goal is to keep mainline green and PR cycle times fast. 

Your role will give you the opportunity to define and deliver world-class build systems at Airbnb’s scale, while driving technical direction for build infrastructure spanning multiple platform teams. Our internal customer teams deliver systems used by product engineers across backend, web, and mobile. Furthermore, to be successful in this role, you will need to be comfortable diving into the application architecture of some of our largest internal backend services as we manage a build graph that continues to grow in complexity.

A Typical Day: 

• Architecting improvements to our existing Bazel installation, and remote build/cache infrastructure to improve correctness, reproducibility, and speed.
• Setting the technical roadmap for software build system reliability and performance.
• Accelerating inner-loop development velocity, along with CI run-times, by diagnosing and resolving build performance bottlenecks, including remote execution efficiency, cache hit rates, and critical path analysis.
• Driving organizational alignment on build system investments across multiple teams and technical domains.
• Serving as the technical authority on build systems across Airbnb: setting standards, mentoring senior engineers, and owning build architecture decisions across multiple repos.
• Partnering with Security on optimizing build processes related to base images.
• Ensuring a commitment to craft and operational excellence.

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years industry experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Metrics-driven approach to decision-making, with a track record for delivering quantifiable impact and presenting to engineering leadership.
• Expertise in Bazel, and concepts such as action graph, dependency analysis, remote caching.
• Driving cross-organizational alignment and decisions for investments.
• Strong ability to review code.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join: 

We are building the next generation of Airbnb experiences for both guests and hosts across Europe and EMEA, with a singular focus: making Airbnb successful in the region's 40+ markets. While our initial focus is on the booking surfaces - payments, search, pricing, and inventory discovery - our charter spans the entire app, and we're empowered to make changes anywhere they're needed to win in the region. As part of the Guest and Host organisation, and in collaboration with engineering teams based in San Francisco and globally, you will focus on enabling localised, trustworthy, and differentiated experiences that reflect how Europeans actually travel and host. You'll be able to work on exciting, innovative, and technically challenging work, supporting a major company strategy.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Own key company level problem statements and drive critical projects
• Lead the scoping phase, the technical requirements and the implementation of the new functionality
• Partner closely with other Engineering teams and cross functional partners including PM, Design, Data, and TPM.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning

A Typical Day: 

• Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimisations
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Booking & Pricing and organisations such as Listings and Users to understand and prioritise technical requirements
• Proactively grows knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving workflow orchestration systems
• Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend/full-stack development
• Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Considerable experience working in Java and/or Kotlin
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organisation and cross functions
• Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
• Mentorship of junior developers

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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.

NOTE: NO VISA SUPPORT

The Community You Will Join:

The Global Markets Tech team drives the evolution of our guest and host experience across international markets through product innovation that accelerates international growth. Expanding in under-penetrated markets is a core pillar of our company strategy. To achieve this, we innovate at every level - adapting our  product to the unique needs of every corner of the globe so that every user across our 220+ countries and regions feels right at home.

The team partners closely with Product, Design, Data Science, regional stakeholders, and core platform/vertical teams to translate local market needs into durable, scalable technology that can be piloted quickly and then rolled out broadly.

The Difference You Will Make:

A Senior Software Engineer in Global Markets is expected to deliver measurable international growth impact by building scalable product capabilities across key funnel surfaces (landing → search → pre‑booking) and by improving pricing, promotions, and discounts to increase conversion and customer value across markets.

A Typical Day

• Partner with PM/Design/Data Science to clarify goals, requirements, constraints, and success metrics, and translate them into a sequenced technical plan.
• Write or review technical designs, align tradeoffs, and coordinate dependencies with partner teams across regions.
• Build production code and services with a high quality bar: testing, documentation, instrumentation, and performance/reliability considerations.
• Run design and code reviews, advise engineers, and help drive consistent engineering standards across the team.
• Own delivery: track execution risks, provide stakeholder updates, coordinate launches (including localization/market rollout), and monitor post-launch results to iterate quickly.

Your Expertise

• Fluency in English is required. Japanese or Korean working proficiency is a plus .
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a strong track record shipping production systems.
• Solid understanding of large-scale backend architecture and distributed systems patterns (e.g., well-designed APIs, scalable data models, high-throughput services/pipelines, and performance-aware algorithms).
• Proven ability to drive ambiguous problems to resolution: break down open-ended requirements, propose pragmatic solutions, and execute independently while keeping stakeholders aligned.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience building and operating backend services.
• High engineering quality bar: you write clean, testable, maintainable code, and you design with reliability, observability, and operational readiness in mind.
• You actively raise the team’s technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, architecture discussions, and sharing best practices that improve overall team productivity.
• Data-informed decision making: you use metrics and experimentation to validate impact, diagnose issues, and iterate toward better outcomes—recognizing that small improvements in these flows can drive meaningful business results.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills: you work effectively across engineering teams and with Product, Design, and Data partners in a global environment.

The Community You Will Join:

Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to our product at Airbnb. The Payments organization at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace and makes the Payment experience as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible. At the Payments team, our goal is to build and operate scalable systems that power payments ecosystems, host/guest protections as well as community partner  experiences applying core engineering principles that leverage both time-tested and cutting edge technology.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Staff Engineering for Payments, you will provide overarching guardrails on evolution of the architecture with special focus on Community Partner experiences, catering evolving business needs and coaching other engineers on the team. You will envision and design decision support systems, knowledge management systems as well as workflow orchestration systems that can harness various AI advancements. You will define and drive the architecture strategy, work on cross-functional teams to align on organizational initiatives, set standards and help in governance. You will be a player-coach; in that you will be hands-on when a situation arises (player mode) and hands-off where there is opportunity for other engineers to grow and gain experience (coach mode).

A Typical Day:

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments you will: 

• Collaborate with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision.
• Establish a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions.
• Be a critic for existing and new technologies, providing a balanced view of the technology landscape and nurture a culture of sustainable innovation.
• Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products.
• Lead multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
• Lead conversations that align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities.
• Uplevel engineering quality through design/code reviews, mentorship, and hands-on implementation.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers  through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning .

Your Expertise :

• 15+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Experience building, leading, and architecting production systems or features with broad impact.
• Demonstrated technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate ideas, and working cross functionally with Product, Design and Operations teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners, experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership. 
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.

Your Location:

This position is India - Remote (Eligible anywhere within India). The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Guest & Host team based out of India, operates to ensure high quality supply and merchandising differentiates our brand, by providing tools to be used by 1000+ operations agents for supply vetting and quality moderation. As Airbnb expands beyond the core, it is looking to onboard supply outside of the core stays business which requires enhancing our tools. The operational tasks we face are diverse and rapidly evolving. The current manual processes and lack of optimum tooling capabilities hinder the ability of operation agents to work more efficiently, maintain business continuity, and achieve higher scale. 

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Data Engineer on the Guest & Host team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the systems that onboard and manage the highest quality supply across Airbnb. You’ll build robust data pipelines and platforms that power end-to-end visibility for supply operations, from onboarding and regulatory compliance to AI-assisted vetting and listing quality enforcement. Your work will directly enable operations, product, and ML teams to scale trusted supply globally, ensuring every home, service, and experience meets Airbnb’s standards. Whether it’s surfacing insights to optimize onboarding flows, enabling smarter audit triggers, or supporting nuanced licensing workflows, your contributions will be foundational to helping hosts join Airbnb efficiently and ensuring guests have access to safe, high-quality stays.
As you build and maintain key components of the critical data ecosystem, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to creating standards and best practices for Airbnb’s Data Engineering. Your work on solving complex business challenges at scale will be instrumental in shaping the tools, processes, and standards used by the broader data community.

A Typical Day:

• Design, build, and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources, including user interactions, listing details, and external data feeds.
• Develop data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization. Ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy.
• Build scalable data pipelines (SparkSQL & Scala) leveraging Airflow scheduler/executor framework
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Scientists, Product Managers, andSoftware Engineers, to define data requirements, and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements.
• Contribute to the broader Data Engineering community at Airbnb to influence tooling and standards to improve culture and productivity
• Improve code and data quality by leveraging and contributing to internal tools to automatically detect and mitigate issues

Your Expertise:

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience 
• BE/B.tech in computer science or relevant technical field
• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating robust distributed data platforms (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink, HBase) and handling data at the petabyte scale.
• Strong knowledge of Java, Scala, or Python, and expertise with data processing technologies and query authoring (SQL).
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions
• Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue or similar frameworks
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar databases (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

The Community You Will Join:

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are at the heart of the Airbnb product. From Trust to Payments, and from Customer Service to Marketing we rely on ML to ensure that guests and hosts have the best possible experience with Airbnb. 

The CS AI product team is responsible for driving CSxAI (Customer Support x Artificial Intelligence) initiatives by adopting the Generative AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable and exceptional service experience. The team develops and enhances various AI models, ML services and tools including LLM fine-tuning, alignment and optimization, RAG/Search,  LLM evaluation and testing automation, feedback-based learning and guardrail for a wide range of applications in Airbnb.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a principle machine learning engineer, you will be responsible for fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs for diverse use cases while optimizing models for high-performance deployment on Airbnb’s ML Infrastructure. You will partner with product managers, software engineers, data scientists and operation teams to brainstorm, design and develop AI products such as AI Assistant, Autonomous agent,  recommendation, travel planning, and many more products that make meaningful impacts in the world of travel.

A Typical Day: 

• Work with large scale structured and unstructured data; explore, experiment, build and continuously improve foundation models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases.
• Create a multi-year tech roadmap that enables our team to stay on the leading edge of the rapidly evolving AI landscape and leverage the best in class technologies to deliver customer benefits.
• Continuously evaluate recent and upcoming large foundational models, ensuring the selection and refinement of the highest quality models for enhanced performance and efficiency.
• Hands-on prototype, develop and productionize LLM models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases.
• Drive key AI architectural decisions for products, and contribute to Airbnb’s ML platform architecture and strategy.

Your Expertise:

• PhD in Computer Science,  Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience with developing machine learning models and products at scale from inception to business impact.
• Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Proven record of training, fine tuning, optimizing models and inference run-time
• Post-training experience in areas like data processing for fine-tuning; responsible LLMs; LLM alignment; reinforcement learning; efficient training and inference; language model evaluation; and/or multilingual and multimodal modeling.
• Or specialized experience in runtime optimizations, model quantization, compression, on-device inference, GPU inference, pytorch, kernel development

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Airbnb Hotels organization, which includes HotelTonight, is a fun, entrepreneurial, start-up team where you can have outsized impact. Simplicity is at the core of our products. We pride ourselves on delivering the smoothest and most intuitive hotel booking experience. For hotels, we make it easy to drive incremental bookings so they can focus on the craft of hosting. We aspire to facilitate hotel discovery and serendipity at scale, benefitting guests and hotel partners.
As a Software engineer, you will be responsible for building the tools and systems to scale hotels launches worldwide with a focus on supply growth. You will design and build product and platform features to achieve our goals. You will help define and maintain a culture of craftsmanship and excellence. You will represent the engineering team with global cross-functional partners.

A Typical Day: 

• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners to understand requirements, prioritize work, and scope projects within your team’s roadmap.
• Build services and new APIs to hotel tools and onboarding workflows
• 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.

Your Expertise:

• 3+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in backend/full-stack development.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, 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.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Media Foundation team is at the forefront of building the platform that powers all of Airbnb's media experiences—from the photos that help guests find their perfect stay to the videos and animations that bring the Airbnb platform to life. 

Joining the team, you will work closely with a skilled group of backend, infrastructure, and cross-platform engineers passionate about building scalable, reliable systems that serve billions of media assets to millions of users worldwide. You'll collaborate across Airbnb on projects ranging from media processing pipelines and intelligent metadata extraction to cost optimization and platform modernization.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, your expertise will be pivotal in building and scaling the infrastructure that underpins Airbnb's media platform. You will design and implement backend systems that process, store, and serve media assets with high reliability and performance. Your work will directly enable product teams across Airbnb to build richer, more engaging experiences for hosts and guests.

You will have early ownership opportunities in areas such as:

• Building capabilities to trigger ML/AI analysis on media assets, store extracted metadata, and serve results to downstream teams—enabling richer, smarter experiences for hosts and guests
• Driving initiatives to reduce infrastructure costs through in-house image transformations, storage optimizations, and vendor consolidation
• Amplifying the capabilities of our platform in serving images, videos, and additional media types, shaping the cutting-edge media capabilities at Airbnb

If you thrive at the intersection of infrastructure and product impact, and enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges at scale, this role is for you.

A Typical Day: 

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and data pipelines that power media ingestion, processing, and serving at Airbnb scale
• Build platform capabilities that enable ML/AI teams to trigger analysis workflows, store extracted metadata, and access media intelligence across product surfaces
• Work closely with engineers from product teams across Airbnb, understanding their media needs and building self-serve solutions to address them
• Continuously optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of existing media infrastructure
• Stay current with industry trends in distributed systems, media processing, ML infrastructure, and workflow orchestration frameworks
• Mentor and guide team members in their career development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with strong foundations in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, and demonstrated experience with media-related technologies (image processing, video transcoding, or metadata management)
• Experience building data pipelines, batch processing systems, or platforms that support ML/AI workflows is highly valued
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or similar backend languages, with experience designing APIs and data models
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities, with a track record of partnering effectively with cross-functional teams including other ML/AI infra experts

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

At Airbnb, we believe technology has the power to bring people together — and our engineers are the ones building it. Our Engineering org is a diverse, fast-moving group of teams working across Payments, Trust, Marketing, Relevance & Personalization, and more. Together, we're tackling some of the hardest problems in tech: search relevance at global scale, fraud prevention, seamless payments, and fueling growth — all while delivering a product experience that feels effortless and beautiful. We're also at the forefront of integrating AI and machine learning into our products — from personalized search experiences to intelligent trust and safety systems — and we're looking for curious engineers who are excited to grow alongside this technology.

If you're energized by engineering that creates real-world human connection — and by the idea that your code will be experienced by millions of people around the world — you'll feel right at home here.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Software Engineer (New Grad) at Airbnb, you’ll play a vital role in building, supporting, and refining the products and systems that make Airbnb’s mission possible. Your work will directly contribute to high-quality, reliable experiences for our global community—whether you’re fixing bugs, launching well-defined features, or enhancing existing components. You'll also have the opportunity to contribute to AI-powered features, applying foundational knowledge of machine learning concepts and modern AI tools to build smarter, more personalized experiences for our hosts and guests. By clearly communicating challenges and collaborating with teammates across functions, you’ll help drive projects forward with transparency and trust.

You’ll foster a sense of belonging by actively seeking feedback, sharing your own learnings, and supporting the onboarding of new team members. You’ll help uphold Airbnb’s commitment to excellence by following best practices, delivering tasks autonomously, and continually improving your technical skills. Your curiosity, empathy, and commitment to candid communication will empower you to make a meaningful impact—on projects, teammates, and Airbnb’s inclusive culture.

A Typical Day: 

• Attend team syncs to discuss priorities, share progress, and surface any blockers with transparency.
• Dive into coding—fixing bugs, developing features, or refining APIs and components—while applying best practices for code quality, error handling, and testability. Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code or similar) to accelerate your workflow and improve code quality.
• Participate in design or code reviews, ask clarifying questions, and apply feedback to improve your work. Work closely with cross-functional partners like product managers and designers to ensure your tasks align clearly with broader goals.
• Dedicate time to expanding your technical knowledge through documentation, mentorship, or internal knowledge-sharing sessions. This includes staying current on AI/ML developments relevant to your team's domain — whether that's recommendation systems, natural language understanding, or AI safety practices. Seek guidance from managers or tech leads when tackling unfamiliar problems.
• Contribute to team activities, such as onboarding new hires (e.g., being an onboarding buddy), sharing observations from the hiring process, or joining in cultural events focused on diversity, inclusion, and innovation.
• Share updates on your progress and next steps, highlighting challenges or learnings. 

Your Expertise:

This role is designed for recent graduates (Bachelor's or Master's) with less than 1 year of full-time professional experience who are ready to grow fast and make an impact.

• Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and systems thinking
• Proficiency in one or more of: Java, Scala, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C++, SQL, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift (iOS), or Kotlin (Android)
• Foundational awareness of AI/ML concepts — such as supervised learning, model evaluation, or working with APIs backed by large language models (LLMs) — gained through coursework, personal projects, or internships
• Familiarity with Python and common AI/ML libraries (e.g., NumPy, scikit-learn, or PyTorch) is a plus, as is experience integrating cloud-based AI services or LLM APIs
• An understanding of responsible AI principles — including fairness, privacy, and safety — and a curiosity about how these apply to real-world product development
• Bonus points for leadership experience, community involvement, or teaching/mentoring — we love engineers who invest in others

Your Location:

Preference for candidates based in San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington with the ability to commute to the office three days per week. Additional in-person attendance for team meetings or offsites may be required as needed. Domestic Relocation support will be provided for candidates open to relocating.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join: 

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems by building and using tools leveraging AI. We own and continuously improve product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase, identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems.  

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb, leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering
• As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents.

A Typical Day: 

• Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases.
• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development.
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release.
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation 
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Typescript, Javascript) and strong scripting skills
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands-on experience with web automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Unified Data Store (UDS) team is the architect of Airbnb’s global system-of-record. We design, build, and operate the mission-critical storage platform that powers every user profile, listing, reservation, and financial transaction on the platform. Supporting over 150 million users worldwide, our work is the bedrock of Airbnb’s reliability and efficiency.

As a Staff Engineer in our Brazil Engineering Hub, you will join a high-impact group of technical leaders who value craft and operational excellence. You won't just be managing data; you will be building a modern distributed infrastructure service that enables hundreds of product teams to ship features with total confidence.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who thrives on solving deep architectural challenges and leading through ambiguity. As a Staff Engineer, you will serve as the Technical North Star for the UDS Client Stack, ensuring our data access layer is seamless, high-performance, and future-proof.

A Typical Day: 

• Define Technical Strategy: Lead the multi-year roadmap and long-term architecture for the UDS client stack, balancing immediate execution with systemic platform evolution.
• Architect for Scale: Design and operate a high-performance data access layer that abstracts complexities like indexing, replication, and global consistency models.
• Drive Engineering Excellence: Lead deep-dive design reviews and establish best practices for building fault-tolerant distributed systems across the organization.
• Empower Developers: Act as a bridge between infrastructure and product, creating a unified interface that simplifies how engineers interact with complex data systems.
• Collaborate Globally: Partner with UDS and Data Infrastructure teams globally to align architecture, drive adoption, and deliver high-impact solutions.

Your Expertise:

• Experience: 9+ years of relevant industry experience, with a proven track record of operating at a Senior or Staff level in a high-growth environment.
• Distributed Systems Mastery: Deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, including storage internals, networking, and consistency models.
• Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions across multiple teams, and mentor senior talent.
• Platform Mindset: A passion for building high-performance infrastructure services that prioritize developer experience and system reliability at scale.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to articulate complex infrastructure challenges to both technical partners and internal customers.
• Innovation: A strong interest in leveraging emerging technologies, including Applied AI, to optimize data management and system observability.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. Our teams work on everything from driving improvements for the end-to-end Host and Guest experience to launching new product verticals from the ground up. Our job is to build world-class, comprehensive platforms and features to create high quality experiences for our outstanding community of Hosts and Guests.

The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main product details page (PDP) that brings together all the listing details, and anchors the guest booking flow as well as guest pricing and availability across all Airbnb product surfaces.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in Guest Displays & Platforms, you’ll help lead the development and refinement of major new features at the heart of the guest experience on Airbnb.  This includes reconciling new features with existing functionality, working closely with designers to shape desired product goals into a feasible and viable guest user experience, and last but not least, identifying underlying patterns and abstractions to help increase developer velocity while maintaining technical quality on critical surfaces for the Airbnb guest experience.

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
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others

A Typical Day: 

• Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations.
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across the organization to understand and prioritize technical requirements.
• Proactively grow knowledge of leading edge practices and trends.
• Advocate for and participate in efforts with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations.
• Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Considerable experience working in Java and/or Kotlin
• Fluency in frontend web technologies  (e.g. HTML, CSS, React and Graphql etc)
• Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organizations and across functions.
• Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
• Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions.

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 & 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. 

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.

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 Community You Will Join

The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main product details page (PDP) along with Pricing & Availability across the booking flow for all products (Homes, Hotels, Experiences, Services). Our work is at the heart of the Airbnb guest UX, so we work very closely with many teams, including Search, Checkout, Listings, Users, Host Settings, Payments, Tax, Cities, and Trust to create a seamless and consistent guest experience.

As a Guest Displays & Platforms Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the development and refinement of major subsystems powering the core user journey for Airbnb guests.  This includes developing new and refined product features, supporting day-to-day operations, identifying patterns and building systems and patterns to streamline development and increase quality over time, performing and presenting technical & product deep dives to relevant stakeholders, and strategic planning.

At the staff level, our engineers are responsible for establishing a technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, 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.  

The Difference You Will Make

• Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term
• Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
• Mentor and grow the capabilities of your peers
• Pioneer the way we use AI to build and the way we utilize AI in features for our guests
• Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers
• End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality and user 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. Airbnb,Inc. can be employed in states where we have registered entities. 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  evolving and being updated, 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 & Belonging

Airbnb is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.

The Community You Will Join:
The Quality Platform team is at the heart of Airbnb’s mission to provide a seamless, high-quality experience for millions of hosts and guests. We don’t just find bugs — we build the infrastructure that prevents them. Our team sits at the intersection of Mobile Infrastructure, Developer Experience, and Applied AI. We empower thousands of engineers across Airbnb to ship with confidence by building high-scale platforms, AI-driven automation, and fault-tolerant systems. You will join a group of high-impact engineers who value craft, operational excellence, and the challenge of navigating one of the world’s most complex mobile codebases.

The Difference You Will Make:
As a Senior Android Software Engineer, you will play a key role in evolving our Quality Platform. You will bridge the gap between product engineering and infrastructure, ensuring that our Android codebase remains highly testable and resilient as it scales.

In this role, you will:

• Build AI-Native Tooling: Move beyond traditional automation by implementing AI-driven agents that optimize our CI/CD pipelines and provide intelligent feedback to developers.
• Enhance Developer Velocity: Identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks in the development lifecycle, allowing teams to move faster without compromising quality.
• Advocate for Quality by Design: Work directly with product teams to guide architectural decisions, ensuring that new features are modular and testable from the first line of code.
• Ship High-Scale Infrastructure: Own the development and maintenance of frameworks used by hundreds of engineers across Airbnb, ensuring they are performant, reliable, and easy to use.

A Typical Day:

• Hands-on Development: Write high-quality, performant Kotlin code to extend testing frameworks and build AI-powered developer tools, leveraging LLMs to accelerate development workflows
• Technical Ownership: Take ownership of key components of our Automated Quality Platform, ensuring operational excellence and high availability (24x7) of our testing infrastructure.
• Design & Review: Participate in deep-dive design reviews for new Android features, providing expert guidance on modularity and testability patterns.
• Applied AI: Implement LLM-based solutions for smart test orchestration, test case generation, and autonomous test discovery to reduce CI feedback loops.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product and Mobile Infrastructure teams to align platform capabilities with the needs of the broader engineering org.
• Mentorship: Review code and provide technical guidance to peers, fostering a culture of commitment to craft and engineering rigor.

Your Expertise:

• Experience: 5+ years of professional Android development experience (or 2+ years with a PhD) in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment.
• Technical Mastery: Strong proficiency in Kotlin and the Android SDK. You have a solid understanding of modern Android architecture and the Gradle build lifecycle.
• Infrastructure Experience: Demonstrated expertise in building or maintaining test automation frameworks (e.g., Espresso, Compose Test) at scale.
• CI/CD & Tools: Familiarity with CI/CD orchestration and a passion for building tools that improve the developer experience.
• AI Curiosity: A strong interest or hands-on experience in leveraging AI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity or quality challenges.
• Problem Solving: Proven ability to navigate complex, ambiguous codebases and implement best-in-class solutions.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to facilitate technical discussions across cross-functional teams.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems by building and using tools leveraging AI. We own and continuously improve product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems. 

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering
• As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability.
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.
• As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents.

A Typical Day: 

• Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases.
• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency.
• Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development.
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release.
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation 
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Kotlin, Java) and strong scripting skills
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Espresso)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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.

The Checkout team is a critical team within the Booking & Pricing (B&P) organization. Booking & Pricing has a wide array of mission critical responsibilities across the Guest and Host experience including merchandising listings, enabling Booking and Reservation Management and managing pricing & calendar systems.

As the Engineering Manager for Checkout, you will lead the team responsible for Airbnb’s Checkout online APIs and user experience across all platforms. The team’s work enables guests to seamlessly complete a booking and ensure Airbnb's core transaction is fast, trustworthy, and conversion-optimized at every step. In addition to working with other engineering organizations, you will be responsible for closely collaborating with cross-functional partners in Product Marketing, Design and Data Science.

The community you will join

Checkout sits at the critical intersection of guest intent and a completed transaction - the moment where trust in Airbnb is either earned or lost. The team builds and is responsible for the end-to-end booking flow, from pricing presentation and payment processing to booking confirmation, ensuring that every guest experiences a smooth path to securing their purchase. Success here requires close collaboration with partners across Payments, Trust, Pricing, and other Product teams to deliver systems that are fast and reliable at scale. You'll join a team that holds itself to a high bar on engineering quality, takes ownership of outcomes that directly impact Airbnb's top line, and operates with a culture of rigor, transparency, and shared accountability.

The difference you will make

As a B&P Engineering Manager, you’ll lead a full-stack team of talented, diverse software developers to enable and optimize a best-in-class Booking experience that scales across all of Airbnb’s current and future product offerings. As a leader, you will:

• Develop a deep understanding of both our Guests’ needs and our technical systems to create and deliver a viable technical vision
• Proactively influence cross-functional partners and teams to align on deliverables that meet our Guests’ needs while improving the technical quality of the Booking system
• Lead a full-stack team of 10–14 highly motivated engineers by setting a high technical bar while actively investing in each engineer's  growth and career trajectory

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Lead the organizational and technical direction of the team: proactively share context to help the team connect the dots of their work with broader company initiatives
• Build a robust team by attracting top talent, mentoring individuals and regularly providing feedback
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
• Collaborate with internal teams and cross-functional partners to gain agreement by developing and communicating a clear and impactful vision and priorities for the team
• Implement an execution framework that detects problems early and enables thoughtful planning, tracking and reporting on the work of the team 

Your expertise

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and teams across the engineering organization
• Passionate about building intuitive and delightful products to solve real user problems while maintaining a high technical quality bar
• Track record of growing engineers through promotion, meaningful scope expansion, or career pivots
• Strong problem solver that has led a team operating large scale, mission critical production systems

Preferred qualifications

• Expertise building & operating Booking related systems such as transactional systems, payment flows, or high-availability APIs
• Experience evolving large systems through incremental migration strategies while maintaining product velocity

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is powered by our Host and Guest communities. Reputation is at the core of Airbnb's trust platform. The Reputation team is responsible for everything related to a user's reputation, from reviews and superhost and standards enforcement. With the complexity ranging from individual travelers and hosts to large vacation rental businesses. Our work includes but not limited to

• Reviews - As a two sided marketplace, reviews allows both guests and hosts to recognize and keep each other accountable. Collecting and acting on data collected from our users, (including the business logic of the questions we ask in the review flow) is the backbone of the reputation team.
• Superhost - The concept of a host is core to Airbnb, the superhost program is built to recognize and reward top hosts for going above and beyond to provide an incredible experience for guests.
• Standards - Airbnb is built on trust, the reputation team is tasked with escalating education and enforcement when poor feedback is received.
• Insights - Data is the center of Airbnb, powering all things. The Reputation team provides easily consumable and accurate data to hosts about how they are performing and opportunities they may want to take advantage of.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated engineer who is passionate about making a difference through their work. The reputation team is fundamentally improving how review data is collected and stored. We are working towards modularizing our systems and creating an ecosystem that can span beyond the two sided marketplace we serve today. We are at the early stages of a multi-year journey to build a company-wide review platform. As a key contributor, you will have the unique opportunity to be involved from the early days of redefining the Reviews space for Airbnb.  Some projects will have you focusing on one particular layer, while many others will require you to move across the stack fluidly.

A Typical Day: 

• Work with cross functional partners (product managers, legal etc) to design and deliver high-quality products.
• Create paved paths and best practices within the reviews, standards, and insights space.
• Define technical strategy and lead the architecture, build, and launch of solutions for serving reviews flows and providing data to our users.
• Work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth.
• Influence and align stakeholders across teams and organizations on technical direction, goals, and roadmaps.
• Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable.
• Collaborate with team members and cross functional partners to define product definitions and roadmaps

Your Expertise:

• 7+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains.
• Proven track record of defining technical direction and owning architecture for large-scale, complex production systems.
• Ability to drive technical strategy and make architectural decisions that span multiple teams and systems.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers, and influencing technical decisions across teams and organizations.
• Experience with service oriented architecture.
• Experience with Agentic Coding tools
• Proficiency in one or more backend server languages (Ruby/Java/Kotlin), and in popular storage systems such as relational databases, NoSQL and caching.
• Breadth of knowledge in reviews and metrics domain is a plus

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Insurance team at Airbnb is responsible for providing comprehensive protection for both guests and hosts. They manage the AirCover program, which includes Guest Travel Insurance, Host income protection, Host liability insurance, and Host damage protection. The team ensures that Guest and Host are protected against various scenarios such as guest-caused damage and deep cleaning needs, and they support guests with rebooking, refunds, and safety assistance.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Inclusive and supportive work environment. We promote sustainable engineering practices, well-being / healthy team dynamics, and value differences.
• Career development -- internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities.
• Work on launching and expanding our insurance products across global markets.
• Seize greenfield opportunities on a fast-growing team.
• Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout.
• Drive business growth through the implementation of cutting-edge technologies, including the innovative use of LLM.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and numerous platform teams within Airbnb.

A Typical Day: 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Insurance team , you will:

• Be the technical lead and owner of significant scope, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution.
• Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools using your expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure.
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
• Be a player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence.
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution.
• Work with cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Prior real-word experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, GraphQL, Python, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#.
• Experience architecting and/or developing concurrency, multithreading and synchronization in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners.
• Experience in analyzing extensive data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, offering data insights, and advancing effective product solutions.
• Proficient in designing and deploying high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices. Possess a working knowledge of relational databases and expertise in query authoring (SQL).
• Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction.
• Expertise in architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact.
• Expertise with global infrastructure, networking, massive data storage systems, load balancing, etc.
• 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. 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 & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadesåt 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Quality Reputation team is dedicated to building exceptional customer-facing products that enhance trip quality and user reputation. We build systems that define and improve quality on Airbnb: collecting quality signals that elevate the best supply while protecting users through proactive intervention and enforcement. Our mission is to build delightful user products and intelligent capabilities that raise the supply quality on the Airbnb platform. The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Software Engineer (New Grad) at Airbnb, you’ll play a vital role in building, supporting, and refining the products and systems that make Airbnb’s mission possible. Your work will directly contribute to high-quality, reliable experiences for our global community—whether you’re fixing bugs, launching well-defined features, or enhancing existing components. You'll also have the opportunity to contribute to AI-powered features, applying foundational knowledge of machine learning concepts and modern AI tools to build smarter, more personalized experiences for our hosts and guests. By clearly communicating challenges and collaborating with teammates across functions, you’ll help drive projects forward with transparency and trust.

You’ll foster a sense of belonging by actively seeking feedback, sharing your own learnings, and supporting the onboarding of new team members. You’ll help uphold Airbnb’s commitment to excellence by following best practices, delivering tasks autonomously, and continually improving your technical skills. Your curiosity, empathy, and commitment to candid communication will empower you to make a meaningful impact—on projects, teammates, and Airbnb’s inclusive culture.

A Typical Day: 

• Attend team syncs to discuss priorities, share progress, and surface any blockers with transparency.
• Dive into coding — fixing bugs, developing iOS features, or refining UI components —while applying best practices for code quality, error handling, and testability. Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code or similar) to accelerate your workflow and improve code quality.
• Participate in design or code reviews, ask clarifying questions, and apply feedback to improve your work. Work closely with cross-functional partners like product managers and designers to ensure your tasks align clearly with broader goals.
• Dedicate time to expanding your technical knowledge through documentation, mentorship, or internal knowledge-sharing sessions. This includes staying current on iOS platform developments or AI/ML topics relevant to your team's domain. Seek guidance from managers or tech leads when tackling unfamiliar problems.
• Contribute to team activities, such as onboarding new hires (e.g., being an onboarding buddy), sharing observations from the hiring process, or joining in cultural events focused on diversity, inclusion, and innovation.
• Share updates on your progress and next steps, highlighting challenges or learnings. 

Your Expertise:

This role is designed for recent graduates (Bachelor's or Master's) with less than 1 year of full-time professional experience who are ready to grow fast and make an impact.

• Strong foundation in Computer Science fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and systems thinking
• Proficiency in Swift, with exposure to SwiftUI or UIKit for building iOS applications
• Foundational understanding of iOS development concepts — including networking, caching, client storage, accessibility, and asynchronous programming
• Familiarity with REST APIs; exposure to GraphQL is a plus
• Bonus points for leadership experience, community involvement, or teaching/mentoring — we love engineers who invest in others

Your Location:

Preference for candidates based in San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington with the ability to commute to the office three days per week. Additional in-person attendance for team meetings or offsites may be required as needed. Domestic Relocation support will be provided for candidates open to relocating.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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. 

The Community You Will Join

The Quality Platform team is at the heart of Airbnb’s mission to deliver a seamless, high-quality experience for millions of hosts and guests. We don’t just find bugs — we build the systems that prevent them.

Our team sits at the intersection of Quality Engineering, Infrastructure, and Applied AI. We are evolving how software quality is built by integrating LLMs, intelligent automation, and data-driven systems into the testing lifecycle. You will join a high-impact group of engineers focused on building AI-powered quality systems that scale across one of the world’s most complex codebases.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building and evolving AI-native quality workflows across Airbnb. You will design systems that apply AI directly to the testing lifecycle, helping developers and quality engineers build, validate, and ship high-quality software at scale.

In this role, you will:

• Build AI Agents for the Testing Lifecycle: Design and implement AI agents that support developers and quality engineers across the testing lifecycle — from test case generation and evolution to automation and maintaining test coverage as the codebase changes.
• Advance AI-Native Quality: Move beyond traditional automation by building systems that continuously adapt test coverage based on code changes and system behavior.
• Improve Developer and QE Productivity: Identify bottlenecks in testing and CI/CD workflows, and solve them through intelligent automation that reduces manual effort and accelerates feedback loops.
• Integrate AI into Engineering Workflows: Embed AI capabilities into real development environments, enabling both developers and quality engineers to receive contextual, actionable insights during development and testing.

A Typical Day

• Hands-on Development: Build end-to-end systems and tools (TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Python) that will power Airbnb’s AI quality platform. This includes services, developer tooling, and UI surfaces that integrate AI into testing frameworks/infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and everyday developer workflows.
• Applied AI: Develop AI-assisted capabilities such as context-aware agentic E2E validation on pull requests, agentic execution of business-critical flows as quality gates, agentic surface discovery and exploratory testing, and systems for test case generation, and coverage maintenance.
• System Design: Participate in the design of scalable AI-driven systems operating within large-scale engineering environments.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Mobile, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Quality Engineering teams to integrate AI into real-world development workflows.
• Experimentation & Iteration: Explore approaches such as prompt engineering and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to improve system effectiveness and adaptability.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and help raise the bar for applying AI in engineering systems across the team.

Your Expertise

• Experience: 5+ years of software engineering experience in high-scale environments, ideally building platforms, infra, or developer/quality tooling, with exposure to or strong interest in AI/ML or LLM-based systems.
• Quality / DexEx/ Tooling Systems : Experience with testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, developer experience tooling, or quality engineering platforms.
• Applied AI / LLMs: Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs (prompting, APIs, RAG, evaluation, or similar) is a strong plus.
• Fullstack & Platform Engineering: Experience building both client and server-side systems. You can work on modern web/mobile stacks(Swift, Kotlin) and tooling, as well as the supporting backend services (Java, Python).
• Systems Thinking: Understanding of distributed systems, CI/CD workflows, and large-scale software architectures.
• Problem Solving: Ability to navigate ambiguity and design practical, scalable solutions.
• Communication: Strong ability to collaborate across teams and explain complex concepts clearly.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Reservations and Additional Products team owns the storage and alteration of core Reservation data that power Airbnb’s Stays, Experiences and Services. In addition, we also steward the Order Data system, Gift Cards platform, and post-booking purchase flows, all of which have the goal of growing the capabilities of the Airbnb e-commerce engine.

A Typical Day: 

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale.
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation.
• Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture.
• Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
• Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in full stack development.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master/PhD’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise in the following: Java/Kotlin. JavaScript, React is a plus.
• Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures containing mission critical data. Fullstack product experience is a plus.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organization and cross functions.
• Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
• Mentorship of senior developers.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join: 

We are building a new set of tools to make it easier for people to connect and host on Airbnb. Our team focuses specifically on co-hosting and ways to make it easier for people to host together as a team. 

As part of the team and in collaboration with engineering teams based in San Francisco, London, and Paris, you will focus on elevating this project from regional to global.

What kind of Software Engineer are we looking for?

As a Hosting Services Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the development and refinement of major subsystems powering the hosting services systems.  This includes developing new and refined product features, supporting day-to-day operations, identifying patterns and building systems and patterns to streamline development and increase quality over time, performing and presenting technical & product deep dives to relevant stakeholders, and strategic planning.

At the staff level, our engineers are responsible for establishing a technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, 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.  

The Difference You Will Make:

• Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems to inform the right technical and product tradeoffs for both short and long term
• Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
• Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
• Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, UX and numerous platform teams within Airbnb

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
• Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers
• End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality and user 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. 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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Quality Platform team is at the heart of Airbnb’s mission to provide a seamless, high-quality experience for millions of hosts and guests. We don’t just find bugs — we build the infrastructure that prevents them. Our team sits at the intersection of Mobile Infrastructure, Developer Experience, and Applied AI. We empower thousands of engineers across Airbnb to ship with confidence by building high-scale platforms, AI-driven automation, and fault-tolerant systems. You will join a group of high-impact engineers who value craft, operational excellence, and the challenge of navigating one of the world’s most complex mobile codebases.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior IOS Software Engineer, you will play a key role in evolving our Quality Platform. You will bridge the gap between product engineering and infrastructure, ensuring that our IOS codebase remains highly testable and resilient as it scales.

In this role, you will:

• Build AI-Native Tooling: Move beyond traditional automation by implementing AI-driven agents that optimize our CI/CD pipelines and provide intelligent feedback to developers.
• Enhance Developer Velocity: Identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks in the development lifecycle, allowing teams to move faster without compromising quality.
• Advocate for Quality by Design: Work directly with product teams to guide architectural decisions, ensuring that new features are modular and testable from the first line of code.
• Ship High-Scale Infrastructure: Own the development and maintenance of frameworks used by hundreds of engineers across Airbnb, ensuring they are performant, reliable, and easy to use.

A Typical Day: 

• Hands-on Development: Write high-quality, performant Swift code to extend testing frameworks and build AI-powered developer tools, leveraging LLMs to accelerate development workflows
• Technical Ownership: Take ownership of key components of our Automated Quality Platform, ensuring operational excellence and high availability (24x7) of our testing infrastructure.
• Design & Review: Participate in deep-dive design reviews for new IOS features, providing expert guidance on modularity and testability patterns.
• Applied AI: Implement LLM-based solutions for smart test orchestration, test case generation, and autonomous test discovery to reduce CI feedback loops.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product and Mobile Infrastructure teams to align platform capabilities with the needs of the broader engineering org.
• Mentorship: Review code and provide technical guidance to peers, fostering a culture of commitment to craft and engineering rigor.

Your Expertise:

• Experience: 5+ years of professional IOS development experience (or 2+ years with a PhD) in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment.
• Technical Mastery: Strong proficiency in Swift and the IOS SDK. You have a solid understanding of modern IOS architecture and the Xcode build lifecycle.
• Infrastructure Experience: Demonstrated expertise in building or maintaining test automation frameworks (e.g., XCUITest) at scale.
• CI/CD & Tools: Familiarity with CI/CD orchestration and a passion for building tools that improve the developer experience.
• AI Curiosity: A strong interest or hands-on experience in leveraging AI/LLMs to solve engineering productivity or quality challenges.
• Problem Solving: Proven ability to navigate complex, ambiguous codebases and implement best-in-class solutions.
• Communication: Excellent communication skills with the ability to facilitate technical discussions across cross-functional teams.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are at the heart of the Airbnb product. From Trust to Payments, and from Customer Service to Marketing we rely on ML to ensure that guests and hosts have the best possible experience with Airbnb. 
The Core ML team in Community Support is the team responsible for adopting the Agentic AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable and exceptional customer service experience. We are responsible for developing the Chat AI assistant, Voice AI Assistant and more! The team is constantly exploring the SOTA Agentic architecture, develops and enhances various AI models, ML services and leverages tools including SFT, Reinforcement learning, Distillation, RAG/Search,  LLM evaluation and testing automation, feedback-based learning and guardrail for a wide range of applications in Airbnb. 
 

The Difference You Will Make:

We believe our current customer experiences in these domains are only scratching the surface of the innovations that are possible, and that science is at the heart of delivering a step-function change for our Guest and and Host on Airbnb. 
You will build and leverage cutting edge AI technologies to transform Airbnb’s customer service by delivering personalized, easy-to-use and proactive customer service experience. 
Many of the initiatives you’ll tackle are in their early conceptual stages. You will have the opportunity to shape these ideas from inception to production, turning visionary concepts into impactful realities.

A Typical Day: 

• Champion the development of novel ML systems, product integrations, and performance optimizations to solve real-world problems
• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to design and build efficient AI solutions for Airbnb CS products
• Learn and share the latest AI/ML technologies with the team.

Your Expertise:

• PhD or Master's degree w/ 3+ YOE in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field — or equivalent industry experience
• Hands-on expertise in LLM, including pretraining, fine-tuning (SFT, RLHF, GRPO), prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and LLM evaluation frameworks
• Experience building Agentic AI systems — including multi-agent orchestration, tool-use, planning, memory, and autonomous reasoning pipelines (e.g., ReAct, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar)
• Experience of shipping production-grade ML/AI systems at scale, with deep understanding of ML infrastructure, model serving, and MLOps best practices
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, and Design organizations

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join: 

The BizTech BI&Analytics team partners with business and finance stakeholders to deliver scalable self-serve analytics & AI transformation programs, budgeting & forecasting solutions, reliable data pipelines, and trusted metrics & dashboards.  Empowering timely, compliant, data‑driven decisions and a robust analytics foundation across Airbnb. 

The Difference You Will Make:

We are seeking a high-caliber Staff Systems Engineer to lead our Oracle EPM Planning systems and processes.  This is a critical role within the Airbnb BizTech organization supporting Finance.  The ideal candidate will be the primary technical architect and developer of the EPM environment with in-depth subject matter expertise in the Finance Budgeting and Forecasting function.  Responsibilities include financial forecast modeling, system and AI-driven process transformation, integration with the data warehouse, and the technical mastery to translate complex business requirements into scalable Oracle EPM solutions.

A Typical Day: 

• Technical Leadership & System Admin 
• Application: Lead the design, configuration, and maintenance of Oracle EPM Planning modules (Financials, Workforce, Capital, Cash Forecast, Long Range Planning, etc).
• Calculations & Modeling: Develop and enhance complex business rules and calc scripts. Proficiency in Groovy Scripting for advanced data and forecast modeling.
• Data Integration: Architect and monitor data flows with AWS data warehouse, Oracle ERP Cloud, Workday leverage Data Management, EPM Automate and internal Airbnb integration tools.
• Environment Management: Manage the monthly Oracle patch cycle, including regression testing and impact analysis of new features.
•   FP&A Functional Support
• Process Improvement: Partner closely with FP&A to continue to streamline the budget and forecasting process by automating manual offline models and enhancing data integration to reduce forecast cycle and improve accuracy. 
• Reporting & Analytics: Build and maintain critical and complex reports using Financial Reporting Web Studio; Smart View expert assisting finance users with ad-hoc analysis and template creation.
• User Support: Monthly forecast cycle user support to resolve critical issues timely; engage Oracle support when needed. 
• Forecasting & AI Strategy 
• Strategy Setting: Collaborate closely with Finance & Tech leaders to set strategies to deliver next gen capabilities, drive initiatives and projects with clear business value and impact.  Cross functional alignment on resource allocation and prioritization.
• AI Transformation: AI/ML proficiency with hand-on experiences on agentic AI and workflows.  The ability to identify opportunities and drive FP&A adoption to transform processes into AI-generated forecast, analysis and insights. Experience does not have to be with built in EPM AI.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle Hyperion/EPM (minimum 4 years in EPM Cloud). Experience with EPM automate, groovy scripting, building forms, complex reports, application optimization, and administering user access.
• 6+ years of experience supporting finance functions (FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, Tax) with strong financial statement literacy.
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation, pipeline troubleshooting, and ad-hoc analysis against warehouse tables.
• Strong experience driving integrations between Oracle EPM and ERP via OIC or equivalent middleware.
• Experience operating data orchestration and ETL/ELT pipelines: monitoring workflow health, managing and re-running failed tasks, reviewing execution logs, and coordinating pipeline incidents with owning teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to confidently lead and drive cross functional stakeholder meetings.  Clearly communicate and document technical processes for non-tech stakeholders.
• Exceptional skills in translating business requirements into scalable solutions within or outside of EPM Planning.  Provide options and recommendations for decision making.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join: 

AI and ML are at the heart of the Airbnb product. From Trust to Payments, and from Customer Service to Marketing, we rely on ML to ensure that guests and hosts have the best possible experience with Airbnb.

The Core ML team is responsible for driving CSxAI (Customer Support x Artificial Intelligence) initiatives by adopting Generative AI technologies to enable an intelligent, scalable, and exceptional service experience. The team develops and enhances AI models, ML services, and tools including LLM fine-tuning and optimization, RAG/Search, LLM evaluation and testing automation, feedback-based learning, and guardrails for a wide range of applications at Airbnb.

The richness of Airbnb's data, the complexity of its marketplace, and the variety innate in our product mean that we need to operate at the state of the art of AI practice. We are committed to long-term innovation to solve complex problems, and to do that we need experienced ML

​​The Difference You Will Make:

In this Senior Staff role, you will set technical direction and lead execution for ML evaluation and the end-to-end data flywheel powering CSxAI products (e.g., assistive agents, issue resolution, and tooling). Your work will define how we measure quality, how we turn feedback into learning signals, and how we continuously improve models and products safely and efficiently. You will partner closely with product, engineering, design, operations to build evaluation systems that are trusted, scalable, and actionable - connecting offline metrics to online outcomes.

A Typical Day: 

• Define evaluation strategy and success metrics for GenAI systems, aligning offline evaluation with online business and customer experience outcomes.
• Build and scale evaluation frameworks (golden sets, synthetic data, automated regressions, rubric-based grading, LLM-as-judge where appropriate) with strong controls for bias, drift, and reliability.
• Design the data flywheel: instrumentation, feedback collection, data quality checks, labeling strategy, dataset versioning, and governance to support continuous improvement.
• Lead cross-functional quality initiatives across product, ops, and engineering, driving clarity on what “good” looks like and how teams act on evaluation results.
• Develop and productionize pipelines for dataset creation, model monitoring, evaluation-at-scale, and continuous testing (pre-deploy and post-deploy).
• Drive technical decisions and architecture for evaluation and data infrastructure, balancing speed, rigor, cost, and safety.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Educational Background: PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Industry Experience: 10+ years building, testing, and shipping ML/AI systems end-to-end; including 2+ years of experience with GenAI/LLM systems in production.
• Leadership Experience: 5+ years leading large, ambiguous technical initiatives as a senior IC, influencing roadmap and engineering/science direction across teams.
• Technical Proficiency:
  • Deep expertise in evaluation methodology (offline/online alignment, metric design, human-in-the-loop evaluation, A/B testing, power analysis, regression testing).
  • Hands-on experience with GenAI systems, including orchestration, retrieval, tool calling, memory, etc.
  • Experience building data pipelines and quality systems (labeling workflows, dataset curation, versioning, monitoring, and governance).
  • Solid ML fundamentals and best practices (model selection, training/serving, monitoring, reliability, and model lifecycle management).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Customer Support Systems: Experience applying ML/AI to customer support workflows (e.g., agent assist, classification/routing, resolution recommendation, QA).
• Infrastructure & Quality at Scale: Experience building robust evaluation platforms for agent behavior validation, safety/guardrails, and continuous improvement.
• Agile Practice for Applied AI: Proven ability to take evaluation and data flywheel work from incubation to production, iterating quickly while maintaining scientific rigor.

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.

The Community You Will Join:

Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. At the core of trust is safety, and thus we spend a significant amount of our time and energy keeping the community safe. The Trust team is responsible for developing the technology that helps protect our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. We constantly work to fight against online fraud (such as monetary loss, compromised accounts, spam and scam in messages, fake inventory, etc.) as well as offline fraud (theft, property damage, personal safety, etc.). We also work on onboarding and screening of users, and think about complex topics like identity and reputation to ensure that every interaction with Airbnb helps build trust in us and our community. Trust Engineering is responsible for the technology vision and development of a complex stack that runs on every key interaction on the platform.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a senior technical individual contributor, you will partner closely with our leaders across the broader technical organization helping design, execute and deliver in a complex and collaborative roadmap of Trust engineering efforts that will require collaboration across many parts of the organization and many parts of Airbnb. Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority, all individual contributors at Airbnb are Software Engineers which means we expect you to be hands on and contribute code.

A Typical day:

• Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the Trust Platform, driving the architectural direction for foundational systems that enable scalable, high-quality fraud, safety, and trust decisioning across Airbnb, and are broadly leveraged across tech organizations
• Dive deep into Trust Platform components, build system and performance tooling, and identify cross-cutting opportunities to elevate technical quality, operational excellence, and developer delight.
• Champion 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.
• Partner with technical leaders, product managers, operations, data scientists, and Trust defense & ML teams to define and drive platform capabilities, tackle evolving fraud threats, and deliver measurable business impact
• Lead and mentor engineers across teams, raising the technical bar and developing the next generation of technical leaders within the trust engineering ecosystem. 

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of backend & platform engineering designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps: aligning long-term platform vision with day-to-day execution across multiple sub-teams, prototyping to iterate on ideas, and influencing without relying on formal authority.
• Exceptional communication skills, equally effective white-boarding with senior ICs, partnering with cross-functional leads (Product, Design, Data Science), and presenting strategy to executives and the broader engineering community.
• Obsessed with reliability: deep experience building and improving observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, chaos testing) to keep mission-critical systems running at the highest bar.
• Hands-on with modern languages (e.g., Kotlin/Java/Scala) and comfortable evaluating and introducing new technologies including AI-assisted development workflows (LLMs, code generation).
• Experience building developer experience & tooling is a plus, with a mindset of treating internal developers as customers and championing self-service, documentation, and delightful DX.
• Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

• Airbnb Payments team allows any two people in the world to frictionlessly exchange money with easy to use payments services. It is a core strategy to fulfill Airbnb’s belongs anywhere mission.We are building a world-class payments platform that moves billions of dollars, in 191 countries, with 75 currencies, through a complex ecosystem of payments partners. We build and maintain our own in-house global payments platform because no solution exists with the global reach needed. As the platform grows we’ll be adding new payment partners, global licenses, compliance and regulation controls, and building new payment experiences for our guests and hosts.

The Difference You Will Make:

• As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents.
• As a Senior Software Engineer in Payments Quality Solutions org, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering teams to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability. You will be expected to work with engineers in the US to tackle these complex challenges.
• Aligned with our company mission, Belong Anywhere, we value the importance of diversity and belonging in the workplace, and that's why we commit to not discriminating on basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

A Typical Day:

• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for Payments features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development.
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release.
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Your Expertise:

• BE/ B.tech in computer science/engineering or equivalent
• 6+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation 
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least two programming languages (e.g., Typescript, Java, Swift, Kotlin, Python) and strong scripting skills
• Strong hands-on experience with DSA - data structure and algorithm
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks
• Demonstrated expertise in developing for testability, test automation frameworks
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

Airbnb's infrastructure is scaling fast in the AI era: more compute, more GPU spend, more complexity across the stack. The Infrastructure Performance team exists to make sure that growth doesn't come at the cost of speed, reliability, or efficiency. We treat performance as a first-class engineering property - measurable, continuously improving, and enforced across the software lifecycle.

This is the most senior performance engineering role at the company. In this role, you won't be handed a roadmap. You'll build one.

The Performance team owns performance across the full stack: CPU and GPU fleet utilization, backend service efficiency, end-to-end request latency, storage, ML infrastructure, and observability. That means instrumenting and profiling at scale, discovering hot paths, shaping how teams across the company think about performance SLOs, and influencing build vs. buy decisions on emerging hardware and software.

The team also builds the tooling that lets every backend team self-serve performance insights, scaling good decisions beyond your direct involvement.

On the product side, as the TL for Performance team, you will partner with engineering teams to tie infrastructure performance directly to user experience and business outcomes. When a host's listing loads faster or a guest's search returns cleaner results, some of that is the win enabled by the Performance team.

Why this role is unusual

Most performance engineering roles are reactive: triage a regression, close the ticket. This one is different. You'll be setting the strategy, defining what "good" looks like, and building systems that make performance a default property of how Airbnb ships software. That requires someone who can operate at both the systems level and the organizational one.

If you've been waiting for the chance to shape how an entire company thinks about performance, this is it.

Responsibilities

What you'll do:

• Define and drive Airbnb's long-term performance strategy, spanning product performance, infrastructure efficiency, and business objectives for scale and growth
• Lead the architecture and development of performance profiling and instrumentation infrastructure, covering CPU, GPU, memory, request hot paths, utilization, and deployment events, making these capabilities available to all backend teams
• Partner with infrastructure teams across compute, reliability, backend frameworks, and AI Infra to ensure the fleet operates at optimal utilization
• Connect performance outcomes to business objectives and company-wide SLOs, and guide engineering teams in keeping the stack scalable and efficient
• Evaluate emerging hardware and software technologies, engage with the external solutions ecosystem, and advise on build vs. buy decisions in areas of strategic importance
• Mentor and technically uplevel engineers across the organization through design reviews, architectural guidance, and performance best practices

About you:

• 12+ years of performance engineering experience in high-scale, high-growth production environments
• Deep understanding of how software and hardware systems interact at scale, including architectural patterns for performance-critical stacks. You know the difference between a bad algorithm and a bad cache eviction policy, and you're comfortable in the kernel, in the JVM, and in a post-mortem
• Strong familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with profiling and instrumentation tooling across CPU, GPU, memory, and distributed request tracing
• Demonstrated ability to define performance objectives and drive delivery against company-wide SLOs across multiple organizations. 
• You know how to move organizations, not just codebases: you've influenced teams that don't report to you, made the case for long-term investments over short-term fixes, and mentored engineers who went on to do exceptional work
• Strong communication and influence skills; comfortable driving technical direction with senior engineering and product leadership

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 & 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. 

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.

NO VISA SUPPORT

The Community You Will Join:

The Engineering team is responsible for developing the Airbnb app and building products. We are a remote team based in different cities in China, and we meet up in person regularly to collaborate, connect and celebrate. 

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Software Engineer in the Global markets Foundation team, you will work closely with PMs, designers, data scientists and engineers across global teams to build the foundation for Airbnb. You will be responsible for improving the foundation of the product from engineering efficiency, consistency and quality. You will work on projects that can span multiple areas, foundation, traffic and data.

This is a small team that provides its ICs with the opportunity to either go broad and influence all foundation wise development at Airbnb, or to go deep and improve the ways of working on a single platform.

A Typical Day: 

• Build services and APIs to drive existing and new features for web and mobile apps
• Work with data scientists and business analysts to define, capture, and use real-time event data for business insights and product features
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering teams to participate in, validate, and evolve how we build, test, and deploy code in a distributed Service-Oriented Architecture
• Alter existing and develop new data access and protection patterns to ensure our community’s personal data is safe and secure, at scale
• Maintain the cloud infrastructure, specifically for Airbnb guests based in China
• Opportunity to work with nearly every team in the company to surface their product functionality in our customer support tools

Your Expertise:

• 2-4 years of industry experience as Backend or Full-Stack Engineer with a BS/Masters or no years of experience with a PhD.
• Experience in building tools for internal use
• Work experience, open-source code, or coursework in any of the following languages: C/C++, Java, C#, Python/Django, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Javascript / TypeScript.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Experience with web development best practices such as A/B testing, continuous integration.
• Understanding of data structures and problem solving approaches, and ability to articulate trade offs.
• Passion for creating a highly effective technology platform for our growing global workforce.
• Be future looking, we might be focused on immediate regulations, but need to build for the long term.
• Comfortable with tackling ambiguous problems and unblocking yourself.
• Focus on building high quality products, every one of our flows affects the business bottom line.
• Data driven in how you solve problems and validate you've solved them correctly.
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills.
• [Bonus] Frontend development experience is a big bonus.

Your Location

This position is China - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

NOTE: NO VISA SUPPORT

The Community You Will Join:

The Global Markets engineering team is focusing on evolving our guest and host experience for global markets through new product initiatives to accelerate international growth. Expanding in under-penetrated global markets is a key pillar of our company's growth strategy. To achieve this, we want to innovate in every sense of the word and adapt our product to every corner of the globe. We want every user in each of our 220+ countries and regions to feel right at home. 

We are a remote team based in different cities in China, and we meet up in person regularly to collaborate, connect and celebrate.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a senior iOS engineer on the mobile team, you will tackle the unique technical challenges of building for global markets — locale-aware UI, market-specific features and integrations, and performance optimization across diverse conditions. You will work on projects spanning the full product surface, from signup/login, search, PDP, checkout, and reviews to foundational components like maps, networking and logging.

You will partner closely with PMs, designers, data scientists, and engineers across both our China-based team and Global partner teams to ship features that make millions of users across under-penetrated markets feel right at home. As a senior team member, you will also play a key role in raising the engineering bar through code reviews, tech design reviews, and mentoring. 

A Typical Day: 

• Partner with cross-functional teams (PM, Design, DS, QA) and Global engineering teams to translate product requirements into technical solutions and help shape the roadmap
• Write and review technical designs for large, open-ended problems — from market-specific product features to foundational mobile infrastructure
• Write clean, testable, and maintainable Swift code to ship polished, pixel-perfect user experiences
• Mentor and support the career growth of other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and technical guidance
• As the tech lead of a project, drive end-to-end delivery, communicate progress to stakeholders, and own the overall quality across the full release cycle

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of iOS development experience; proficient in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and Core Animation / Core Graphics
• Proficient in applying AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) to accelerate development workflows — from tech design, to code generation, debugging, to code review and documentation
• Strong product sense with a proven ability to build pixel-perfect interfaces and fluid animations 
• Proven track record of leading technical initiatives and navigating ambiguous challenges
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills with excellent English communication; experience working in globally distributed teams or building products for diverse markets is a plus

Your Location

This position is China - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

The Community You Will Join:

The Growth Platform team’s vision is to drive long term sustainable growth for the Airbnb community. Our mission is to build a best-in-class agentic system, and capabilities to support the growth of all Airbnb products, current and future. We achieve this by delivering highly personalized and relevant content and product experiences to the Airbnb community, both on and off of the Airbnb platform. The north star is full autonomy — where AI identifies opportunities, creates campaigns, personalizes experiences, and optimizes outcomes with minimal human intervention. We are progressing along a deliberate maturity curve: AI assisted → agentic → autonomous, with human-in-the-loop controls at every stage to ensure brand safety, quality, and compliance.

The Growth Platform deeply integrates with the Airbnb product, understanding the customer journey and enabling differentiated customer engagement experiences to drive product growth.  The platform also powers digital marketing channels including landing pages, email, push, SMS, and digital advertising, as well as the machine learning/AI and data platforms that feed into the management and optimization of these channels.

The Difference You Will Make:

• As a machine learning engineer or scientist, your expertise will be pivotal in developing AI-powered solutions to shape the future of the Airbnb agentic growth platform with cutting-edge AI techniques. You will drive and guide the rest of the engineers to brainstorm, design and develop AI products and features from inception to production. 
• We're seeking a Senior Staff Engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical depth, architectural thinking, and mentorship.
• You’ll collaborate with cross-functional leaders, build resilient systems that operate globally at scale, and help evolve the foundational building blocks behind AI-powered growth systems.

Some example projects you will work on:

• AI-Powered Content Generation - Developing agentic capabilities to autonomously create personalized emails, push notifications, Ad copy, and creatives. This significantly scales marketing efforts by enabling more campaigns, greater variant testing, and faster iteration cycles.
• ML/AI Orchestration for Decisioning - Utilizing AI to determine the optimal audience, message, channel, and timing for communications. This shifts marketing decision-making to model-driven intelligence, enhancing relevance and minimizing message fatigue. The direct impact is an uplift in engagement rates, conversion, and ultimately, bookings.
• Proactive Marketing Analyst Agent - Designing an AI agent that autonomously identifies new marketing opportunities and converts them into executable campaigns. It leverages world knowledge, proprietary Airbnb intelligence, and deep customer profiles. A crucial performance-based feedback loop ensures the system continuously learns from campaign outcomes to refine and improve future recommendations.

A Typical Day: 

• Work with large scale structured and unstructured data; explore, experiment, build and continuously improve Machine Learning models and pipelines for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including product managers, operations and data scientists, to identify opportunities for business impact; understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning, and drive engineering decisions.
• Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate ML/AI models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases.
• Leverage third-party and in-house Machine Learning tools & infrastructure to develop reusable, highly differentiating and high-performing Machine Learning systems, enable fast model development, low-latency serving and ease of model quality upkeep.
• Collaborate actively with engineers to apply ML / AI in their solutions to help validate ideas and guide to the right outcomes.
• Partner with ML/AI Engineers in foundations engineering to mentor and develop initiatives that make ML/AI applications a core discipline for non-ML/AI engineers.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of industry experience in applied ML/AI, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields
• Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java / C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills
• Deep understanding of ML/AI  best practices (e.g. training/serving skew minimization, A/B test, feature engineering, feature/model selection), algorithms (e.g. neural networks/deep learning, optimization) and domains (e.g. natural language processing, computer vision, personalization, search and recommendation, marketplace optimization, anomaly detection)
• Deep understanding of Machine Learning best practices (eg. training/serving skew minimization, A/B test, feature engineering, feature/model selection) and algorithms (eg. gradient boosted trees, neural networks/deep learning, optimization)
• Experience with technologies such as: Tensorflow, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Airflow (or equivalent), Kafka (or equivalent)
• Expertise with architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, models)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Agentic and Automation: Experience with AI technologies in automating processes and developing agentic solutions and frameworks.
• Agile Practice for AI Production: Experience with the entire AI product development lifecycle from incubation to production at scale, following agile practices in the Applied AI/ML domain.
• Infrastructure Acumen: Experience building robust testing frameworks for agent behavior validation and continuous improvement, and driving architectural requirements on ML infrastructures

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

Listings and Quality team ensures that our marketplace has accurate, high-quality supply to power trusted experiences for Guests and Hosts. As the leader in the Listings Product team, you will define, build, and shape the future of Airbnb’s Listings product flows, such as intelligent supply onboarding and management.  The team is highly collaborative with its partners in design, product, data science, legal, and marketing to deliver features and experiences used by millions of people. We work closely with other engineering teams to ensure we build systems that are performant and configurable with architecture that's scalable and robust.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Define and execute strategy to dramatically improve the Host Listing Management experience through AI and data capabilities.
• Set priorities, balance speed and quality, and ensure the engineering team executes against an ambitious roadmap.
• Partner with Product, Design, and ML/Data teams to take high-impact initiatives from concept to production.
• Drive the  technical foundation and ensure that we’re maintainable and extensible software.
• Examples of initiatives include features to improve listing accuracy and completeness so guests can book with greater confidence, encouraging hosts to provide richer merchandising content, and transforming our tech stack to enable flexible and dynamic listing management tools.

A Typical Day: 

• Lead and mentor a diverse team of ~8+ engineers and technical leads across mobile native, web frontend, and backend services.
• This role is highly cross functional so you will partner with senior leadership in Engineering, Product, and Design and across our Business to align stakeholders, define multi-year roadmaps, set and execute on iterative milestones.
• Collaborate closely with key engineering teams, including Listings Foundation, Calendar, Pricing, Guest Experience, Trust, Infrastructure, and Customer Service Platform.
• Coaching and developing team members, helping them grow their careers, technical expertise, and collaboration skills.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of industry experience, with a minimum of 3-5 years in engineering management.
• Track record of strong partnership with design and product leadership, through proactive collaboration, building prototypes, and leadership demos.
• Expertise in setting 1-2 year technical strategies and roadmaps, aligning vision with diverse executive and technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience leading high-performing, healthy, inclusive and collaborative teams quickly in dynamic, fast-paced domains.
• Exceptional people management and mentorship skills, with a history of recruiting, developing and retaining top engineering talent.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Payments team at Airbnb is crucial to the company's operations, handling critical data related to compliance with Tax, Payments, and Legal regulations. We also manage application data for tools such as CRM, Jira, and Workday, which are essential for Airbnb’s business. Joining this team means working with cross-functional stakeholders, designing scalable solutions, and contributing to a world-class data engineering environment with an emphasis on quality, scalability, and robust engineering practices.

The Difference You Will Make:

Our team charter is on enabling Airbnb to comply with Tax, Payments,and Legal regulations so that our Hosts can continue to operate in regulated geos. Our products ingest, process, validate, and deliver large datasets to government authorities (often partnered with tax remittance) so our data must be of the highest accuracy and quality. As you build and maintain key components of the critical Compliance data ecosystem, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to creating standards and best practices for Airbnb’s DataEngineering. Your work on solving complex business challenges at scale will be instrumental in shaping the tools, processes, and standards used by the broader data community.

A Typical Day:

• Design, build, and maintain robust and efficient data pipelines that collect, process, and store data from various sources, including user interactions, listing details, and external data feeds.
• Develop data models that enable the efficient analysis and manipulation of data for merchandising optimization. Ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy.
• Develop high quality data assets for product use-cases by partnering with Product, AI/ML and Data Science.
• Build scalable data pipelines (SparkSQL & Scala) leveraging Airflow scheduler/executor framework
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers, to define data requirements, and deliver data solutions that drive merchandising and sales improvements.
• Contribute to the broader Data Engineering community at Airbnb to influence tooling and standards to improve culture and productivity
• Improve code and data quality by leveraging and contributing to internal tools to automatically detect and mitigate issues

Your Expertise:

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience
• BE/B.tech in computer science or relevant technical degree
• Hands on experience in DSA coding -Data structure and algorithm
• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating robust distributed data platforms (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink, HBase) and handling data at the petabyte scale.
• Strong knowledge of Scala, or Python, and expertise with data processing technologies and query authoring (SQL).
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, provide data insights, and advance effective product solutions
• Expertise with ETL schedulers such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue or similar frameworks
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar databases (e.g., Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

The Community You Will Join:

Payments is key for any healthy marketplace, and is just as central to our product at Airbnb. The Payments org at Airbnb is responsible for everything related to settling money in Airbnb’s global marketplace and makes the Payment experience as delightful, magical, intuitive, and easy as possible. At the Payments modeling team, our goal is to empower the mission by introducing intelligences and personalizations that optimize Airbnb’s massive daily transaction volume to best collect payments from guests, distribute payouts to hosts while preventing fraudulent transactions from happening.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior ML Engineer for Payments, you will be the catalyst that transforms bold AI innovation -  LLMpowered workflow, realtime fraud defenses, and hyperpersonalized checkout flows -  into production systems that make Airbnb Payment experience feel effortless and secure; you’ll architect and own end-to-end solutions at global scale, partner closely with product, software, and operations teams to turn complex requirements into elegant, latencyfirst services, and set the technical standard for model governance, continuous learning, and engineering excellence that elevates our entire payments ecosystem while shaping the company’s broader AI strategy.

A Typical Day: 

• Spearhead LLM agents, realtime anomaly detectors, and other breakthrough solutions that solve real-world problems and create product magic.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, ops, and data science to spot high leverage opportunities, refine AI/ML requirements, make principled architecture choices, and measure business value with clear, data-driven metrics.
• Design, train, deploy, and operate large-scale AI applications for both batch and streaming workloads, ensuring low latency, high reliability, and continuous improvement via automated monitoring and retraining loops.
• Mentor and inspire teammates, fostering a collaborative, experimentation-driven environment where cutting edge research meets production excellence and every engineer is empowered to push AI boundaries at Airbnb.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience in applied AI/ML, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields.
• Strong programming (Python/Java) and data engineering skills.
• Proven mastery of modern AI/LLM workflows — prompt engineering, fine tuning (LoRA, RLHF), hallucination mitigation, safety guardrails, and rigorous online/offline testing to minimize training/inference drift and ensure reliable outcomes.
• Handson experience with at least three of the following: PyTorch/TensorFlow , scalable inference stacks, vector search, orchestration/MLOps platforms (Kubeflow, Airflow), largescale data streaming & processing (Spark, Ray, Kafka)
• Demonstrated success designing, deploying, and monitoring production AI systems - e.g. personalization engines, generative content services - complete with drift/cost/latency monitoring, automated retraining triggers, and cross-functional collaboration that translates ambiguous business needs into measurable AI impact.
• Prior knowledge of AI/ML Applications in the Payments domain is highly desirable

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 & 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. 

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.

Senior Software Engineer, AI Products (India)

Company Overview

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 Airfam Products team exists to make every Airbnb employee more productive through a unified digital headquarters experience. As part of a 13-person cross-functional team of engineers, designers, researchers, and product managers, you'll work on platforms that serve Airbnb's entire global workforce.

Our portfolio includes One Airbnb (the company's internal cultural hub with enterprise search, people profiles, and AI-powered chat), OneChat (Airbnb's enterprise AI assistant enabling secure LLM interactions), and a suite of tools that power how employees discover information, connect with colleagues, and get work done.

You'll be joining the AI for Non-Developers workstream, focused on expanding AI productivity tools to all Airbnb employees—building OneChat Agents, deep research capabilities, artifact creation tools, and task automation that make AI accessible to everyone, regardless of technical background.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Airfam Products team, you'll be instrumental in building Airbnb's next generation of AI-powered employee experience platforms. Your work will be a force multiplier for the entire company—every AI feature you ship, every system you architect, and every engineer you mentor will amplify productivity across Airbnb's global workforce.

You will:

• Democratize AI by building tools that empower non-technical employees to leverage the power of LLMs
• Drive innovation by taking AI prototypes from concept to production at scale
• Shape the future of how Airbnb employees work, collaborate, and discover information

A Typical Day

• Lead the technical design and implementation of LLM-powered features for OneChat and enterprise AI tools, including RAG pipelines, AI agents, and prompt optimization
• Partner with product managers, designers, and cross-functional teams to translate user problems into AI-powered solutions that serve Airbnb's global workforce
• Develop and iterate on agentic AI capabilities, including multi-step reasoning, tool use, and context-aware decision-making
• Implement evaluation pipelines and quality systems to measure model performance, detect hallucinations, and ensure responsible AI practices
• Own production AI systems end-to-end, including deployment strategies, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Collaborate with the DevAI team on AirChat SDK integrations, MCP (Model Context Protocol) implementations, and Glean Action Packs
• Mentor engineers (L6-L8) through design reviews, architecture discussions, and pair programming sessions
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving GenAI landscape, evaluating new models and techniques for potential application
• Balance hands-on technical contributions with technical leadership activities

Your Expertise

Required:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with significant focus on building production AI/ML systems
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Strong proficiency in backend technologies (TypeScript, Go, or Java)
• Strong backend and distributed systems expertise, including API design (REST, GraphQL) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Track record of shipping AI-powered products from prototype to production
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence without authority
• Excellent communication skills with ability to distill complex technical concepts for diverse audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred:

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
• Experience building AI agents and multi-agent systems, preferably using Claude
• Experience building integrations using MCP
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Background in building enterprise-grade internal tools and developer productivity platforms
• Experience with frontend technologies (React, Next.js) for full-stack AI product development
• Contributions to open-source Gen AI/ML projects or publications at top venues

Your Location

This position is based in Bangalore, India with a hybrid work arrangement. You'll collaborate with teammates across global time zones, with primary alignment to Pacific Time for key meetings.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & 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.

If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.

The Community You Will Join:

The BizTech team at Airbnb is crucial to the company's operations, handling critical data related to compliance with Tax, Payments, and Legal regulations. We also manage application data for tools such as CRM, Jira, and Workday, which are essential for Airbnb’s business. Joining this team means working with cross-functional stakeholders, designing scalable solutions, and contributing to a world-class data engineering environment with an emphasis on quality, scalability, and robust engineering practices.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are looking for a hands-on expert to provide technical leadership in addressing BizTech’s diverse data engineering needs and driving long-term strategies and best practices. This key leadership role requires strong collaboration and influence across teams. You'll play a crucial role in understanding business needs, identifying the right data sources, designing efficient data models, and building reliable, scalable data pipelines. As technology continues to evolve, you'll help shape and maintain significant parts of BizTech’s critical data ecosystem. Your contributions will not only address complex business challenges but also help refine and advance Airbnb’s Data Engineering Paved Path, benefiting the entire data community at Airbnb. We believe in solving problems and contributing back to our data community to continuously improve.

A Typical Day /Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and testing of data systems, from architecture to production.
• Build batch and real-time data systems that support business needs and critical products.
• Ensure data systems' quality, performance, and stability through rigorous monitoring and quality assurance practices.
• Design and optimize data models to efficiently meet business and product requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, and engineers, to develop scalable systems and drive data-driven decisions.
• Maintain strong partnerships with backend, data science, and machine learning teams to ensure seamless integration of data systems.
• Contribute to long-term data strategies and influence data engineering practices across the organization.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering best practices for data quality and governance.
• Advance 3rd party data integrations, enhancing frameworks for data exchange, governance, and lineage.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's/Master’s degree in CS/EE (or 6+ years with a PhD).
• Extensive experience in designing, building, and operating distributed data platforms (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink) at a large scale.
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python, along with strong skills in data processing and SQL querying.
• Proven track record of designing and optimizing batch and real-time data pipelines.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work with product managers, data scientists, and engineers.
• Advanced problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on data quality, governance, and system reliability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence stakeholders and convey complex technical concepts.
• Expertise in data modeling, warehousing, and working with relational and columnar databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, BigQuery).
• Experience with integrating machine learning models into data systems (preferred).
• Strong leadership and mentorship capabilities, with experience guiding teams on best practices and technical strategies.
• Flexible and innovative, with the ability to adopt new technologies to enhance data systems and processes.

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.

Search is at the core of the Airbnb marketplace that connects our guests and hosts. It helps guests find the best homes and experiences to fit their needs and wants. We collaborate with cross-functional partners to revolutionize the Airbnb search experience and advance Airbnb's mission to help anyone feel like they can belong anywhere.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Contribute to strengthening Airbnb’s OpenSearch ecosystem by actively participating in development, innovation, and upkeep.
• Build systems that drive reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency in our OpenSearch infrastructure.
• Develop tooling that enhances the developer experience for all OpenSearch users at Airbnb.
• Collaborate and share improvements with the OpenSearch open source community.

A Typical Day: 

• Participate in design workshops focused on shaping the future of Airbnb’s search platform.
• Dedicate significant focus time to building and improving tooling for ElasticSearch/OpenSearch upgrades, using state-of-the-art language models as powerful engineering aides.
• Engage in 1:1 mentoring sessions with experienced staff engineers to develop technical and professional skills.
• Connect with team members and partners during in-person gatherings to align on goals and foster collaboration.

Your Expertise:

• Proficiency with Java for building scalable, maintainable systems
• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of industry experience with a bachelor’s or master’s degree. No prior industry experience required for candidates with a PhD.
• Familiarity with ElasticSearch or OpenSearch is a plus.
• Strong communication skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across teams and stakeholders.
• Professional proficiency in English (reading, writing, and speaking).

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

The Community You Will Join: 

The UI Foundation team has a deep history at Airbnb, responsible for the design system, accessibility, motion, and the tooling that connects how Airbnb designs and builds products. Within UI Foundation, the UI Tooling team is the connective tissue between Airbnb's Design Language System and the day-to-day workflows of hundreds of designers and engineers across the company.

UI Tooling owns the platforms, integrations, and tooling that power how designers and engineers work — spanning design tooling, UI engineering workflow tooling, collaboration platforms, and increasingly, AI-powered workflows across all three. As AI enablement for designers and engineers accelerates, this team sits at the center of some of Airbnb's most strategic infrastructure investments.

The Difference You Will Make:

As the Engineering Manager of UI Tooling, you will provide the dedicated leadership this team needs to execute with consistency, clarity, and long-term strategic direction. You'll manage and develop a team of engineers, own the multi-year roadmap across UI Tooling's core areas, and serve as a cross-functional partner to Design, Product, and AI teams driving the next generation of designer and engineer enablement at Airbnb.

This role directly unblocks UI Foundation's broader ambitions. With you in this role, the team gains the focus and stability it needs to move fast on initiatives that have a blast radius across every team at Airbnb that builds products.

You will own strategy and execution across five key areas:

• AI Usage of the Design System: Figma Code Connections and Integrations, UI Development Skills and Agents, Prototyping Skills and Agents, Design Skills and Agents
• Core UI Development Workflow & Tooling: Component development and documentation tooling, design-to-code platforms, migration tooling
• Core Design Workflow & Tooling: Internal design platforms, Figma enablement, design tooling and Figma plugins
• Collaboration Workflow & Tooling: Motion spec tooling and core motion frameworks, prototyping platform contributions and tools
• Education and Adoption: Enabling designers, engineers to be properly educated in the tools we’re providing and ensuring adoption of those tools

A Typical Day: 

Strategic Leadership:

• Define multi-year technical roadmaps for UI Tooling with clear, measurable outcomes tied to UI Foundation goals
• Drive adoption of AI-powered design-to-code workflows across Design and Engineering, establishing Airbnb as a leader in this space
• Build cross-functional alignment with Figma, product teams, and AI/ML partners to advance Airbnb's designer and engineer enablement capabilities
• Represent UI Tooling in org-level planning and investment conversations, shaping prioritization and surfacing dependencies across UI Foundation

Day-to-Day Execution:

• Lead, develop, and grow a team of engineers working across design tooling, developer experience, and AI-powered workflows
• Partner with design and engineering leaders to identify workflow pain points and prioritize the highest-leverage tooling investments
• Guide technical decisions across the team — from platform architecture to AI integration patterns — bringing a senior engineering point of view to system design
• Manage staffing, prioritization, and execution consistency, driving clarity and unblocking work across long-horizon platform investments
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team, supporting career growth and raising the technical bar
• Foster an inclusive team culture grounded in psychological safety and high performance

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years in an engineering management role leading platform, tooling, or design systems teams
• Strong technical foundation in frontend or cross-platform development, with the depth to engage credibly on architecture decisions
• Track record of driving long-horizon platform investments from strategy through execution, with strong cross-organizational influence and stakeholder management
• Experience building or leading developer experience, design tooling, or design system infrastructure at scale
• Familiarity with Figma's ecosystem — plugins, Dev Mode, Code Connections, or similar design-to-code workflows
• Commitment to inclusive leadership and creating environments where engineers can do their best work
• [Bonus] Experience working with AI-powered developer or designer tooling, or integrating LLM capabilities into product workflows

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

Community Support (CS) is a key driver in enabling Airbnb's core business. The Community Support Engineering (CSE) organization builds world-class tools for our team of Community Support ambassadors around the world as well as our operations teams, to ensure our guests and hosts have a great experience on Airbnb, 24/7, and 365 days a year.

Within CSE, China Routing and Data Service(CRD) Team works together with our US partners to co-own the CS foundations systems for our community. We are building the routing systems to efficiently connect our guests and hosts requests to the best agent, leveraging skills-based routing, context, and urgency signals;  we are building CS data services providing the trusted data foundation that powers AI-driven solutions.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the China Routing and Data Service team. In this role, you will:

• Ramp up on the team’s technology, product, and business goals, including hands-on work to develop a deep technical understanding.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team in a fast-paced environment.
• Foster a team culture that emphasizes product thinking, technical depth, and customer-centric problem solving.
• Drive and partner closely with teams across CSE to understand business cases and deliver intuitive, scalable routing and data solutions.
• Set clear priorities and strategic direction in collaboration with cross functional partners..
• Improve team processes to strengthen collaboration and ways of working, execution efficiency, and delivery quality.
• Lead complex, cross-functional projects that align with business goals and deliver measurable impact.

A Typical Day: 

As an Engineering Manager on the China Routing and Data team, you will:

• Collaborate with other senior leaders and peers to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision.
• Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products.
• Lead team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
• Lead conversations that align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities.
• Nurture a culture of technical quality and engineering excellence from design, through code review, to production.
• Enable and empower ICs to grow their impact beyond individual contributions, creating opportunities for them to lead technical initiatives that span across platforms and organizations.
• Retain, grow and hire a team of high-performing engineers. Build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into a polished reality.  
• reality.  

Your Expertise :

• 9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Proven experience working with many engineering teams and cross functional partners. 
• Strong expertise in building large-scale backend systems and experience in user facing features.
• Strong product and design instinct, previous proven experience building delightfully designed experiences.
• Flexible in leadership style, can adapt to a variety of ways of working depending on the situation.
• Experience leading and shipping large initiatives with high business impact.
• Creating a strong culture of operational excellence with focus on raising the bar for quality, reliability and availability.
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Strong communication skill and ability to influence decisions from a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Experience fostering an inclusive and engaging team environment.
• Able to identify, retain, grow and acquire critical talent.
• Strong commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within teams.
• Fluency in communication in English and Mandarin. 

Your Location:

This position is working remotely within China Mainland. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

The Community You Will Join:

Community Support (CS) has increasingly become a key driver of enabling Airbnb's core business. The Community Support Engineering team is responsible for the world-class technology, architecture, and solutions that power CS at Airbnb. The products and capabilities we build empower our guests and hosts, CS agents, and operations teams around the world. 

As part of the CS Product vision,  we are leveraging AI to transform how we deliver customer service - combining advanced ML/LLM capabilities with the expertise of our Support Ambassadors to create a seamless, high-quality support experience. 

The Difference You Will Make:

As an ML Manager within Community Support Product Engineering in China, you will lead a team of machine learning engineers to research, design, and optimize AI models and services that scale AI-powered products and measurably improve the end-to-end Community Support experience for guests, hosts, and support ambassadors.

What You’ll Do: 

Hire, mentor and guide a dynamic team of highly skilled machine learning engineers, fostering their technical growth and professional development.Proactively take initiatives to drive for outcomes over the scope of the team.Build relationships and drive alignment with stakeholders within Community Support and across external teams.Communicate difficult or complex concepts and decisions clearly and effectively with multiple stakeholders across various functions.Provides critical guidance and input in prioritization over multiple major projects.

• Foster rapid development cycles without sacrificing quality, collaborating closely with platform, backend, and frontend engineers to engineer robust ML models and systems that enhance community support initiatives.
• Uphold Technical Standards: Conduct thorough design and architecture reviews to continually elevate our standards of technical excellence.

Your Expertise:

• Expertise in ML & AI: Deep knowledge of various machine learning and AI methodologies, including LLMs and non-LLMs, tailored for user-facing products.
• Leadership in ML Development: Proven experience in leading teams that develop large-scale ML models and systems to improve online user experiences.
• Management and Mentorship: Strong leadership skills with a track record of nurturing an innovative and collaborative team environment.
• Communication Excellence: Exceptional verbal and written communication abilities, with a keen eye for detail.
• Collaborative Spirit: Demonstrated capability to work effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels, both internally and externally.
• Problem Solving: Skilled in navigating and resolving ambiguous challenges through proactive and strategic approaches.
• Educational Background: PhD, or Master's degree in Computer Science,  Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field.
• Industry Experience: 9+ years of experience in building and shipping AI models and products, including 2+ years of experience with LLMs. 
• Leadership Experience: 2+ years managing machine learning teams that deliver large impact.
• Technical Proficiency: Expert knowledge of machine learning algorithms and techniques.
• Continuous Learner: Ability to absorb new concepts quickly and integrate them effectively into business processes.

Your Location

This position is China - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

The Community You Will Join:

The Global Markets Tech team drives the evolution of our guest and host experience across international markets through product innovation that accelerates international growth. Expanding in under-penetrated markets is a core pillar of our company strategy. To achieve this, we innovate at every level - adapting our  product to the unique needs of every corner of the globe so that every user across our 220+ countries and regions feels right at home.

The team partners closely with Product, Design, Data Science, regional stakeholders, and core platform/vertical teams to translate local market needs into durable, scalable technology that can be piloted quickly and then rolled out broadly.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are looking for a product-minded Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to lead the technical strategy and drive innovative initiatives for Airbnb’s international guest experiences. At Staff level, you will set a technical vision and drive execution of solutions that are highly available, secure, efficient, and designed to scale across many markets with the needs of the international business. You will work across product, engineering, data scientists, designer and cross-functional partners to solve these technical challenges and deliver high-quality products for Airbnb.

A Typical Day

• Own technical vision and lead effort to architecture, prototype, build and launch solutions for international markets initiatives (market configuration, localization services, partner integrations, compliance-aware experiences, etc).
• Lead complex, cross-team execution from design through launch, including team roadmap, technical direction, migration plans, rollout strategy, and long-term operability.
• Drive engineering excellence through reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Influence roadmaps and collaborate with stakeholders across regions, such as drives alignment, resolves tradeoffs, leads through ambiguity.
• Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team.

Your Expertise

• Fluency in English is required. Japanese or Korean working proficiency is a plus .
• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including Tech Lead responsibilities (required).
• Proven track record leading end-to-end delivery of high-impact, user-facing products—from technical design and implementation through launch and post-launch operations.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction for a team or multi-team area (e.g., defining architecture, establishing engineering standards, and shaping a long-term technical roadmap).
• Strong product mindset: you connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact, and you’re comfortable operating in ambiguity with an iterative, experiment-driven approach.
• Expertise designing and operating systems that are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient, with clear operational readiness.
• Strong experience working in cross-functional, global environments, driving alignment and results through influence across teams and time zones.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers, raise the quality bar through reviews and coaching, and establish and drive best practices.

The Community You Will Join:

Data represents the voice of Airbnb’s users at scale. The Data Warehouse Infrastructure team is responsible for the foundational big data infrastructure, which is used by hundreds of engineers to collect, manage, and analyze data at scale. We are using open source technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Airflow etc.

A Typical Day:

• Architect, design, and implement Airbnb's next-generation big data compute platform to support data ETL, analytics, and machine learning initiatives.
• Manage and operate the platform, continually enhancing its reliability, performance, observability, and cost-efficiency.
• Produce high-quality, maintainable, and self-documenting code, actively participating in code review processes.
• Contribute to open-source software and drive meaningful industry impact.

Your Expertise:

Qualifications

• Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience (preferred).
• Experience: 6+ years of professional experience in data infrastructure, with a deep focus on big data technologies.

Technical Skills

• Big Data Proficiency: Expert-level knowledge of big data technologies, including Spark, Trino, Kunbernates, and AWS EMR.
• Programming: Strong programming abilities in languages such as Java, Scala, and SQL.
• System Design: Extensive experience in the design, construction, and maintenance of scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Database Systems: Familiarity with a variety of database systems, including both SQL and NoSQL.
• Troubleshooting: Capacity to diagnose and resolve complex issues within data infrastructure environments.

Collaboration and Communication

• Collaboration: Proven track record of working effectively with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, evaluate potential solutions, and manage system testing and integration.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Teamwork: Demonstrated ability to thrive and contribute effectively within a team-oriented setting.

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 & 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. 

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.

The Community You Will Join:

Our team, Reliability Experience, is responsible for the ideation, development, and maintenance of opinionated UX across the Reliability Engineering ecosystem at Airbnb. We chart the paved path that all platform, infra, and product engineers rely upon to effectively monitor, investigate, and debug system health across Airbnb’s wide-ranging tech stack.

Reliability Experience engineers are on the forefront of building out new internally-used infrastructure and reliability products at Airbnb. We design, prototype, rapidly iterate, and do so with user experience top of mind. We partner closely with the rest of Reliability Engineering and Infrastructure while serving all engineers as customers. We engage openly and enthusiastically with our customers to understand and resolve their reliability pain points in a simple, scalable, and flexible fashion.

The Difference You will Make:

As a Senior Backend (or Fullstack) Engineer, you will be partnering with Reliability, Platform, and Infrastructures teams and utilize your extensive knowledge of web technologies to lead and execute on building the paved path for Airbnb’s current and future internal needs. Your primary objective will be to make it easier to understand what’s happening in production and quickly triage bugs and outages.

A Typical Day: 

• Collaborate with the Reliability Experience, Incident Management, Observability, and Resiliency teams to design and develop high quality UX.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality, tested pull requests and reviewing other’s designs and code.
• Build appropriate tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create and present your own design, product, and architecture documents and provide feedback on others.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering, particularly in the Reliability and Observability space.
• Do all this in an opinionated fashion, with humility and curiosity, as we are our own product managers.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience
• Experience building internal infrastructure, particularly in Data or Observability spaces (Prometheus is a plus)
• Strong collaboration with colleagues across multiple timezones
• Fluency in Java, Python or one objected oriented language 
• Experience with airbnb.io/visx/ is preferred but not required
• Experience with Grafana and similar solutions is preferred but not required
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Demonstrated knowledge of practical data structures and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth without a dedicated product manager
• Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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.

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. 
• Residing at the center of Airbnb’s tech stack between the user-facing products and backend infrastructure, Viaduct provides a global schema & query system through a GraphQL interface. 
• 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. 
• 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:

• Orchestrate and influence multiple technical tracks on the team from the core query engine and performance infrastructure to API ergonomics and reliability tooling, ensuring they interlock into a coherent, world-class developer platform.
• Champion the evolution of Viaduct’s global GraphQL schema: guide the multi-partner steering committee, strengthen governance processes, and drive a long-term vision that scales with Airbnb’s growing product surface and data-as-a-service strategy. 
• Act as a multiplier for senior talent on the team: mentor teammates, cultivate technical leadership across Viaduct sub-teams, and foster an environment where every engineer can drive impactful initiatives.
• Serve as a key technical voice partnering with product, infrastructure, and leadership stakeholders to align Viaduct’s roadmap with Airbnb’s strategic objectives.
• Shape how hundreds of engineers and external open-source adopters build, ship, and operate GraphQL services by advancing Viaduct Modern and defining the next wave of capabilities.

A Typical Day: 

• Dive deep into Viaduct’s engine, API layer, build system and performance tooling, identifying cross-cutting opportunities to raise reliability, efficiency, and developer delight.
• Pair with teammates to untangle complex challenges, providing architectural guidance while amplifying their ownership and growth.
• Facilitate the Viaduct Schema Steering Committee: set agendas, arbitrate proposals, and ensure decisions reflect diverse product needs and long-term maintainability across many systems and use cases. 
• Embrace and be a role model for 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.
• Partner with tenant teams to troubleshoot production issues, design self-service APIs, and evangelize GraphQL best practices through docs, talks, and office hours.
• Contribute to and demonstrate ownership of the open-source Viaduct project garnering feedback from the community and shaping our external roadmap.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of backend & platform engineering designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
• Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps: aligning long-term platform vision with day-to-day execution across multiple sub-teams or “tracks,” and influencing without relying on formal authority.
• Deep expertise in GraphQL, API gateways, and schema design/federation. You have led the evolution of organization-wide schemas or contracts and can articulate best-in-class governance patterns (versioning, deprecation, breaking-change management).
• Builder of developer experience & tooling: you treat internal developers as customers and champion self-service, documentation, and delightful DX.
• Hands-on with modern languages (e.g., Kotlin/Java) and comfortable evaluating and introducing new technologies including AI-assisted development workflows (LLMs, code generation).
• Exceptional communication and influence skills, equally effective white-boarding with senior ICs, partnering with cross-functional leads, and presenting strategy to executives and the broader engineering community.

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 & 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. 

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.

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 Networking team within Airbnb’s Cloud Infrastructure org owns the entire Airbnb production network infrastructure. The group is responsible for designing, building and operating the  software and solutions that connect all Airbnb users and services, such as traffic proxy and load balancer, service mesh, VPC/backbone and cross-region connectivity, network monitoring and security systems. With users around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency and high availability are our team’s core concerns. 

The Difference You Will Make:

As a member of the network infra team, you will be working with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies of cloud native network stack from Layer3 - Layer7. You will contribute to the key infrastructure components that connect all Airbnb users and services across the globe. You will have the chance to define and influence large infrastructure initiatives such as global traffic load balancing and disaster recovery, next-gen service mesh, cross-region gateways and edge security etc. 

Airbnb is a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) end user community, and we work closely with the open source community (e.g. k8s, istio)  and peer companies to tackle cloud native engineering challenges at scale. You will also have the chance to make an impact on the industry and open source communities.  

A Typical Day: 

• Work with open source communities (e.g. istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services; 
• Build the cross-region gateways and load balancers for global Airbnb services; 
• Work with external partners and internal engineering and security teams to deliver edge security systems that protect Airbnb services; 
• Design the multi-region network architecture on public clouds, and build software and operation tools to manage Airbnb’s production network; 
• Work with product and engineering teams to optimize the network performance for Airbnb services;

Your Expertise:

• Professional fluency in English required
• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment. 
• Expertise with virtual network architecture on public cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and their network service offerings (e.g., VPC, Security Group, PrivateLink and related products.). 
• Experience running large scale networking systems and software (e.g. Edge proxies, DNS, CDN, network gateways), experience working with istio, Envoy is a plus.
• You are a full-cycle developer: strong ownership and experience building and operating  high-scale, distributed systems across the full software life cycle. 
• You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering teams.
• You are a strong problem solver and have led a team that is on-call for production infrastructure before.
• You are passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.

Airbnb Cloud Infrastructure in the Media:

• Zero-downtime Istio upgrades across thousands of pods/VMs – InfoQ coverage - 2025
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, Secure Outgoing Traffic: Building a powerful Internet Egress Gateway for Reliable connectivity, Edie Yang, Akshita Agarwal. 
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2024, DNS deep dive in k8s with CoreDNS, Jingming Guo
• The Airbnb Tech Blog 2023, Improving Istio Propagation Delay, Ying Zhu  
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2022, Whose packet is it anyway? Life of a packet through service mesh,  Kevin Leimkuhler, Doug Jordan.
• Building simplified service mesh API for developers -2022
• KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2021, Building a multi-cluster/env service mesh at Airbnb. Weibo He, Stephan Chan. 
• 10 More Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes -2021
• Airbnb on Istio - 2021
• Airbnb Service Discovery: Past, Present, Future (Challenges of Change) - 2020
• Developing Kubernetes Services at Airbnb Scale - 2019
• 10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes - 2020
• Did Kubernetes Make My p95s Worse? - 2020
• Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of Nodes Across Multiple Clusters, Calmly - 2020

Our Commitment To Inclusion & 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. 

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.