Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Airbnb

Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb focused on developing data ingestion systems and leading engineering teams. Driving technical direction and mentoring across the organization.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $204,000 - $255,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with talented engineers on cutting edge technologies to help support Airbnb’s business.
Lead a team of developers to deliver multi-quarter cross functional projects.
Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in data ingestion systems and evaluate and incorporate new technologies and methodologies to improve the existing data ingestion architecture/solution.
Influence the team’s and organization’s long-term roadmap and strategy.
Mentor and coach team members, providing guidance and support to enhance their skills and technical standards in the team.
Raise operational standards by effectively and proactively identifying, debugging and fixing operational issues. Be part of the oncall rotation for the Ingestion team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

9+ years of relevant industry experience
Proven track record of leading and mentoring engineering teams, setting technical direction, and growing engineers in their careers.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, multi-tenant storage, and infrastructure. You've architected and scaled high-performance, business-critical systems.
Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence across teams and organizations, building alignment on technical strategy.
Strong judgment on technical trade-offs and ability to drive decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
Experience onboarding to and navigating a broad and complex codebase, and enabling others to do the same.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits

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Hard Skills & Tools

data ingestion systemsdistributed systemsmulti-tenant storageinfrastructurehigh-performance systemsbusiness-critical systemstechnical directiondebuggingoperational standardscodebase navigation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationinfluencejudgmentdecision-makingguidancesupportcommunicationteam building