Software Engineer, Web Infrastructure

Airbnb

Software Engineer developing web infrastructure at Airbnb. Contributing to AI-powered tools and frameworks while enhancing developer productivity.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $162,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics (developer experience, developer velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability) while reducing cost and providing new functionality to help make our team’s vision, and that of our broader org, a reality. Upcoming projects include modularizing our client observability libraries, code editor and Claude skills developer experience improvements, bundler enhancements, and improving CI debuggability.
Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and encourage adoption of tools and frameworks.
Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings.
Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.
Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2–4+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role, including frontend web development
Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript
Interest harnessing AI tools (like Claude Code and Codex) to modernize and expedite development practices
Ability to communicate effectively and work closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
Love of collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
Interest in working with IDE infrastructure, such as: VS Code plugins or language servers, or Claude Code skills and MCP servers
[Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

TypeScriptJavaScriptfrontend web developmentcode qualityoperational excellencetesting frameworksbundlersobservability toolingCI systemsIDE infrastructure

Soft Skills

effective communicationcollaborationcode reviewsarchitecture discussions