Airbnb

Full-stack Engineer

• Design the future state of our platform and systems by incorporating product-first mentality of our users and their end-to-end workflows
• 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 Marketing 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 Marketing Technologies, ML, Growth Marketing, and Creative
• 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.

Staff Fullstack Software Engineer – Marketing Technology

Android Engineer

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale.
• Design and implement scalable Android practices across the Reservation Management team.
• Be a champion of the team’s Android community, mentor other engineers and uplevel the broader team’s culture.
• 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
• Writing unit and integration tests, reviewing other’s code.

Staff Android Engineer, Reservation Management – Additional Products

Backend Engineer

• Driving partnerships with tenant product teams to inform the tooling roadmap as well as taking on metrics and tracing scaling challenges that push the boundaries of our existing observability infrastructure
• Frequently working in vaguely scoped areas, responsible for defining project requirements for improving reliability and performance, through Viaduct framework changes and tenant-centric observability
• Developing technical expertise in Viaduct framework as well as informed with product teams’ use cases and requests
• Supporting the customer base of Viaduct developers and ensuring that their code gets deployed daily to production
• Get into the flow during daily and intentional Focus Time blocks

Senior Backend Engineer, GraphQL

• 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

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Media Ingestion & Serving

iOS Engineer

• Design, develop, and refine media-related features for the Airbnb iOS app, ensuring high-quality and performant user experiences
• Work closely with engineers from product teams across Airbnb, understanding their productivity and feature pain points and building media solutions to resolve them scalably and flexibly.
• Partner with designers, working collaboratively to provide and receive constructive feedback towards beautiful and performant media products.
• Continuously optimize and improve the performance and reliability of existing media infrastructure.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in iOS development and media processing
• Mentor and guide team members in their career development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth

Senior iOS Engineer

QA Automation Engineer

• 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
• 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

Senior iOS Automation Engineer, Quality Engineering

Data Scientist

• Developing a strong relationship with cross-functional partners in Product, Engineering and Analytics.
• Writing software (Python, SQL, R) to model, simulate and measure the impact of new pricing features.
• Creatively diving into data to understand the differential effects of pricing feature launches and turning that understanding into clear insights.
• Communicating learnings and insights to leaders and partners in a simple and lucid way

Senior Data Scientist, Pricing

Machine Learning Engineer

• Work with large scale structured and unstructured data, build and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases.
• Working together with a wide variety of business functions to stop fraud attacks in real time.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and other Machine Learning Engineers across trust to come up with the best modeling strategy and approach to defending against fake listings.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for fraud detection and mitigation.
• Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases. Examples include: ML models to detect Fake Listing creation attempts.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Listing Integrity

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Senior Android Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining our test tools/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, and guiding designs and code to improve its 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 and product, the tests, tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to the expectations of our internal stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the test coverage, tooling and frameworks necessary to assure that our product workflows deliver a seamless high quality experience for our customers.
• Leverage AI and build, maintain and support our platforms - testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise Android development and testing
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution
• Work closely with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes

Senior Android Software Engineer, Quality

Frontend Engineer

• 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.

Senior Frontend Engineer, Reliability Experience

• 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.

Staff Android Automation Engineer

• 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
• Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Hosting Services and organizations such as Listings and Users to understand and prioritize 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

Senior Frontend Engineer, Hosting Services

• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to translate product and business strategy into high-quality, user-focused features
• Own and contribute across the full development lifecycle—from technical design and implementation to testing, experimentation, analysis, and launch—while providing thoughtful feedback on product specs, UX mocks, code, and design documents
• Champion a culture of technical excellence by upholding high standards in architecture, code reviews, and production operations, ensuring reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability

Senior iOS Engineer, Guest Displays – Platforms

• Work with large-scale structured and unstructured data, build and continuously improve cutting edge Machine Learning models for Airbnb product, business and operational use cases.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Operations, to identify opportunities for business impact.
• Understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact.
• Prototype machine learning use cases for use in the product, and work with stakeholders to iterate on requirements.
• Develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases.
• Design and build services, API to enable serving ML model driven data to product use cases.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Supply & Insights

Engineering Manager

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
• Collaborate with product, design, and other stakeholders to identify and document requirements
• Strengthen the team’s partnerships with key stakeholders in Engineering, Design, and Product to make ambitious product feature concepts a reality.
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
• Collaborate with engineers to plan and sequence the delivery of new features and capabilities, making necessary trade-offs, while effectively communicating the delivery plans and celebrating successful launches
• Partner with peer engineering teams to integrate new features that impact different areas within the product
• Recruit and nurture exceptional engineering talent by investing meaningful one-on-one time to understand their motivations and team dynamics, while also creating a tailored career development plan.
• Foster an inclusive team culture and environment that encourages collaboration, technical excellence, and innovation via calculated risks and product mindset.