# Senior Software Engineer, Backend GraphQL

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: Remote - USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$225,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airbnb/jobs/7547843
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5455746a-4f0

## Description

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.

## Skills

### Required
- GraphQL
- Kotlin
- AI-enabled development flows
- operating critical online backend services
- shipping high visibility, complex coding projects

### Nice to have
- expertise with GraphQL