Staff Software Engineer, Global Markets – Backend

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Airbnb

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

B2C • eCommerce • Hospitality

Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

📋 Description

• Own technical vision and lead effort to architecture, prototype, build and launch solutions for international markets initiatives (market configuration, localization services, partner integrations, compliance-aware experiences, etc). • Lead complex, cross-team execution from design through launch, including team roadmap, technical direction, migration plans, rollout strategy, and long-term operability. • Drive engineering excellence through reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency. • Influence roadmaps and collaborate with stakeholders across regions, such as drives alignment, resolves tradeoffs, leads through ambiguity. • Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team.

🎯 Requirements

• Fluency in English is required. Japanese or Korean working proficiency is a plus. • 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including Tech Lead responsibilities (required). • Proven track record leading end-to-end delivery of high-impact, user-facing products—from technical design and implementation through launch and post-launch operations. • Demonstrated ability to set technical direction for a team or multi-team area (e.g., defining architecture, establishing engineering standards, and shaping a long-term technical roadmap). • Strong product mindset: you connect technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact, and you’re comfortable operating in ambiguity with an iterative, experiment-driven approach. • Expertise designing and operating systems that are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient, with clear operational readiness. • Strong experience working in cross-functional, global environments, driving alignment and results through influence across teams and time zones. • Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers, raise the quality bar through reviews and coaching, and establish and drive best practices.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development • Remote work • Equipment allowances