Staff Backend Engineer

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Airbnb

πŸ’΅ $204k-$259k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Summary

Join Airbnb's Media Foundation team as a Staff Backend Software Engineer and play a key role in designing, building, and optimizing the next-generation media infrastructure. You will lead technical initiatives, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance Airbnb’s media capabilities. This role involves working on large-scale distributed systems processing billions of media assets. A typical day includes designing and implementing scalable backend services, leading architectural decisions, collaborating with various teams, and mentoring engineers. The position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits and is US-Remote Eligible.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of software development experience in a fast paced tech environment with a minimum of 3 years working with media systems
  • Strong programming (Java, Kotlin or equivalent) skills for hands-on IC work
  • You have excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering, product & design organizations
  • Experience working with image processing or content video transcoding
  • Experience AI/ML-based media processing
  • Knowledge of content moderation, media compliance, and rights management

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend services for media processing, storage, and delivery
  • Lead architectural decisions and drive technical excellence in media infrastructure participating in regular on-call & improving team’s operational rigor
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams both internal including frontend, mobile, and infrastructure engineers as well as vendors, to enhance media-related experiences
  • Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation
  • You will ideate and prototype solutions that address concerns that are unique to the Airbnb Media hosting and media processing

Preferred Qualifications

Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits
  • Remote work
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