Senior Staff Engineer, Guest & Host – Host Listings, Quality

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $248k - $310k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

✈️ Travel

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

Travel • Logistics • eCommerce

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

• Set the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for Listings and Quality backend • Bring the team and stakeholders along with the technical strategy • Partner with AI Platform, Trust, Infrastructure, and Product teams • Shape how Listings and Quality architecture fits with the rest of Airbnb • Set platform contracts between teams • Design APIs, data models, and data provenance for AI-assisted features and agents • Drive platformization, simplification, and self-service • Generalize shared capabilities and consolidate duplicated systems • Enable product teams to build within guardrails • Improve reliability and engineering practices • Reduce operational load on systems in critical business paths • Perform hands-on development, including design and code reviews • Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry • 4+ years of experience in an Architect or Staff Engineer role • Ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems • Strong product and platform judgment • Track record of setting a multi-year technical vision for a core platform and delivering it incrementally • Deep backend expertise in distributed systems, data modeling, and API design for large-scale, business-critical platforms • Experience using Java, Kotlin, or similar languages • Experience designing APIs and data systems for AI-assisted features and agents, including data provenance, validation, and guardrails • Excellent engineering skills and a strong operational mindset • Track record of improving reliability and reducing operational load on critical systems • Strong communication and influence across organizations and platform teams, including AI/ML platforms • Ability to set platform contracts, align stakeholders, and mentor senior and staff engineers • Proven track record of fostering a culture of Diversity and Belonging • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Benefits • Employee Travel Credits • Remote-eligible work arrangement • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities