Airbnb

Staff Software Engineer, Dev AI, Developer Infrastructure

Airbnb

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $204,000 - $255,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Help shape and drive our AI for Developers strategy, from ideation through shipping, while bringing strong sense of ownership and coding across various stacks
  • Make pragmatic architectural and technical decisions, balancing ambition with real-world constraints and long-term operability
  • Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape, and help the team balance innovation with incremental, measurable developer impact
  • Serve as a champion, expert, coach, and consultant to empower teams and leaders across the company to adopt and leverage new AI capabilities in their day to day workflows
  • Champion engineering excellence through high-quality code, thoughtful design, and reliable systems
  • Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence for the team's platform components

Requirements

  • 9+ years industry experience (or equivalent depth of expertise)
  • Prior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale and with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industry
  • Hands-on experience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challenges
  • A track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages — and a genuine excitement for continuous learning
  • Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Typescript, or Kotlin
  • Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience.
Benefits
  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
AI technologiesGoPythonTypescriptKotlindeveloper infrastructuretoolingplatformshigh-quality codereliable systems
Soft Skills
ownershiparchitectural decision-makingcoachingconsultingengineering excellencecross-functional collaborationwritten communicationverbal communicationcontinuous learninginnovation
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree