Senior Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Users & Quality team as a highly skilled and motivated product-oriented engineer. You will play a key role in building a company-wide user-centric platform and products. This multi-year effort offers the unique opportunity to shape technical directions from the start. Responsibilities include architecting scalable solutions, prototyping user interactions, leading engineering teams, and collaborating with cross-functional partners. You will be responsible for building efficient and reliable backend solutions and mentoring engineers. The position is US-Remote Eligible with occasional office work.

Requirements

• 12+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains
• BS or MS in CS or related field
• Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate ideas, and working cross functionally with Product, Design and Data Science teams
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Examples of working across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
• Willing to work across the full stack to address technical challenges anywhere in the system
• Experience with working in a cross-functional team that touches many of the core systems and user flows at Airbnb
• Experience with service oriented architecture
• Proficiency in one or more backend server languages (Java/Kotlin), and expertise in popular storage systems such as relational databases, noSQL and caching

Responsibilities

• Work with cross functional partners (product managers, legal etc) to design and deliver high-quality products
• Create paved paths and best practices for the User entity platform and drive alignments and adoptions across the company
• Lead efforts to architect, prototype, build and launch solutions for serving user product flows and user data
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
• Build efficient and backend solutions that are reliable, performant and scalable
• Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team

Preferred Qualifications

Breadth of knowledge in identity and users domain is a plus

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits