Staff Software Engineer, Passport & Commerce – Backend

🕒 August 14

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $212k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 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

• Design and evolve core services and data models tracking account state, eligibility, and entitlements across millions of accounts • Partner with product and design to translate product concepts into scalable, extensible technical designs • Collaborate with Payments and Wallet engineering to ensure credits, discounts, and host-funded programs settle correctly end-to-end • Set technical direction and lead design reviews across a growing team • Mentor engineers and raise the bar on system design • Drive cross-team architecture decisions with Identity & Privacy and Profile & Community teams • Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, and data-integrity risks before they affect guests or hosts • Define team scope, roadmap, and technical foundations for a newly formed organization

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ years of experience designing and scaling complex, distributed backend systems • Proven technical leadership in high-growth environments • Track record of setting architecture direction for a team or domain • Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including data consistency, caching, service decomposition, and API design at scale • Experience building or operating systems involving financial transactions, entitlements, or stateful account data strongly preferred • Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions across multiple teams • Comfort operating with ambiguity on a newly formed team • Experience helping define team scope, roadmap, and technical foundations • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Experience driving alignment across engineering, product, and design partners • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Equity eligibility • Benefits • Employee Travel Credits • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager • Disability-inclusive application and interview process • Reasonable accommodation during the recruiting process