Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Users team as a highly skilled and motivated engineering leader to shape the technical and product directions of building a company-wide user centric platform. As a technical leader, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the technical and product directions from the beginning. You will be in charge of coming up with large scalable architecture for one or multiple User domain areas, align with other tech and cross functional leaders from different teams, and lead a group of talented engineers to come up with milestones and execute the design through multiple releases.

Requirements

• 9+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains
• Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features
• Willing to work across the backend 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 (Ruby/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, 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 team members who have less experience

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits