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:
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 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:

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:

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.

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 an 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: 3+ years of professional Android development experience (or 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 Staff Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by driving the strategy towards comprehensive 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
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ 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 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 Swift and XCUITest
• Strong  hands-on experience with automation methodologies, tools, and 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
• 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.

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 Airbnb users and services, such as traffic proxy and load balancer, service mesh, VPCs and cross-region connectivity, network monitoring and security systems etc. With users around the world, reliability, scalability, efficiency and high availability are our team’s core concerns.

The Difference You Will Make:

You will work closely with peers across Cloud Infra, Security, Reliability, and many other partner teams across the company to deliver an Airbnb network platform that is flexible, efficient, always available, and scales with the needs of the business. As the first Network engineering lead in Airbnb’s Brazil office, you will also have the opportunity to help bootstrap and grow the networking team in our new San Paulo office. This will include day-to-day operations, building the team by hiring top talent, coaching and growing engineers, technical deep dives, community engagement, and strategic planning.

A Typical Day: 

• Provide meaningful input to technical designs and direct hands-on contributions to projects in the cloud networking space 
• Grow, lead, and manage a small team of talented engineers 
• Support your team's professional growth and maintain high performance through mentorship and coaching
• Work with tech leads, peers, and partners to define and execute on a coherent vision and roadmap for Airbnb’s cloud network infrastructure and related components
• Work with open source communities (e.g. istio) to build the next generation service mesh for all Airbnb back-end services
• Build 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
• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production
• Build strong partnership and alignment with teams across engineering
• Nurture relationships with open source communities and external service partners

Your Expertise:

• Professional fluency in English required
• 2+ years of engineering management experience, with 8+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast paced tech environment
• Strong emotional intelligence, empathy, and the ability to effectively connect with colleagues
• Experience with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their networking service offerings
• Experience running large scale networking systems and software (e.g. proxies, DNS, gateways)
• Experience with Istio service mesh, k8s and cloud native technologies is a plus
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with teams across the engineering organization (e.g. reliability, compute, security, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience leading teams on-call for production infrastructure
• 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.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

The Difference You Will Make:

The Service Tools team’s mission is to enable Airbnb backend developers to develop, test, and maintain their code quickly and reliably. This team is responsible for the standard development lifecycle for service owners—everything from AI Integration for service development, to how integration tests work, to building services for deployment. This represents Airbnb’s largest cohort of developers, you will ultimately be responsible for their productivity.

A Typical Day: 

As an engineer on Service Tools, you will work on technologies that help shape an industry-leading end to end developer experience for backend developers. In this role you will be:

• Building our next-gen build system using the latest technologies (e.g., Bazel).
• Working on integrations between the build system and CI/CD tooling (e.g., merge queues, code coverage, integration testing).
• Improving the editor (e.g., IntelliJ) experience for all backend developers.
• Helping to shape the technical strategy that directly moves our core metrics (Developer Experience, Developer Velocity, Debuggability, Resilience and Reliability) while reducing cost.
• Partnering with engineering leaders across all Airbnb teams for adoption of the new capabilities. Your customers will be all engineers at Airbnb.
• A player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence.

Your Expertise:

• FLUENT IN ENGLISH (PROFESSIONAL LEVEL)
• 6+ years industry experience.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.).
• Experienced in architectural patterns of a high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners.
• Experience working directly on build systems, and even better if you have hands-on experience with Bazel.
• Experience working with large monorepos.
• Extensive JVM experience.
• Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact.
• Love collaborating via product reviews, code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
• Are excited to join an impactful infrastructure team.

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.