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From the employer's careers site First seen 18 Apr 2026 · Still live on 13 Nov 2026

Staff Software Engineer, Listings & Host Tools and AI

Airbnb United States Remote staff full-time

Salary

$204,000-$255,000 USD

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Description

We're looking for a data-focused Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts.

As a Staff Engineer, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners to achieve your goals.

Your expertise will be crucial in exploring problem spaces, devising solutions to customer problems, and influencing product strategy.

In this role, you will:

  • Work with product and ML engineers to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
  • Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy
  • Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture
  • Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop backend to support data and AI solutions
  • Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hands-on implementation of those solutions
  • Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing
  • Perform technical design reviews and code reviews
  • Mentor and grow more junior engineers

If you have 10+ years of industry experience, experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products, and influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you.

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.

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