Airbnb is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Airbnb team as a Booking Orchestration Staff Engineer and lead the development and refinement of major subsystems that power Airbnb bookings.

Requirements

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience
• Experience building Booking/Ordering or relevant systems
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
• Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers

Responsibilities

• Lead booking engineering projects to improve booking experience, system scalability and performance
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors
• Write and review technical designs that solve large, open-ended foundational technical problems without clearly-known solutions
• Ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Bookings and organizations such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions
• Proactively grows knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving workflow orchestration systems
• Self-driven and ability to be accountable for key deliverables in our booking system