Senior Software Engineer, Backend GraphQL

We're seeking a skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our Viaduct team, responsible for building and maintaining a unified data access layer connecting most of Airbnb's online data. As a member of this team, you will play a key role in empowering app developers at Airbnb by delivering a seamless and efficient developer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Code in a high-impact, deep-complexity domain, ensuring protected focus time to solve hard problems.
• Collaborate with teammates to share knowledge and learn from each other through collaboration and pairing.
• Navigate ambiguity, taking abstract requirements and refining them into concrete technical roadmaps to improve platform reliability and capabilities.
• Partner with Viaduct tenant teams to support their mission to ship an industry-leading user experience.
• Contribute to the planning process that informs the strategy and roadmap for the Viaduct platform.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in a relevant role, ideally in a team that owned a developer platform.
• Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers.
• Experience operating critical online backend services.
• Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects.
• Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL, Kotlin, AI-enabled development flows.