# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Host Pricing & Settings

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: Remote - USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe.

The Community You Will Join: The Host Pricing & Settings team builds the platform and tools that help hosts run their business , with pricing strategies informed by market intelligence, comparable listings, and demand signals.

The Difference You Will Make: As a senior technical individual contributor, you will own the technical strategy for the full Modeling → ML Serving → API interface across the Host Pricing org.

Responsibilities:

- Define the architecture and contracts governing how models move from development to production , feature store design, model schema management, online/offline inference consistency, and multi-version support.

- Lead the buildout of a unified serving stack that eliminates per-model one-off implementations and gives data scientists a turnkey path from training to production.

- Architect backfill and evaluation infrastructure so the modeling team can simulate production inference over historical data in days, not weeks.

- Establish domain contracts between Modeling and Serving so each team can move independently with clear, enforced interfaces.

A Typical Day:

- Review and evolve the ML serving architecture , making tradeoff calls on feature pipeline design, model composition, and API interfaces.

- Write and review code for feature engineering jobs, feature store configurations, and serving service endpoints.

- Partner with Data Science, MLE, MLI and core Pricing & Availability systems BE teams to define artifact handoffs and integration contracts.

- Drive milestone planning across the Host Pricing & Settings org, sequencing work to deliver value incrementally.

- Mentor engineers through design reviews and hands-on pairing on the hardest infrastructure problems.

Your Expertise:

- 12+ years in backend or platform engineering, with substantial experience building production ML systems or data-intensive infrastructure.

- Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Scala, and/or Python.

- Deep understanding of ML systems design: feature stores, training/serving consistency, model versioning, and online/offline inference pipelines.

- Experience with high-scale batch and real-time data pipelines (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or equivalent), including point-in-time correctness for backfills.

- Expertise with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications , well-designed APIs, efficient data contracts, multi-tenant serving infrastructure.

- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives spanning ML and platform engineering.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Feature Store Depth: Production experience with Chronon, Tecton, Feast, or equivalent , including online/offline consistency and backfill automation.

- Model Serving Infrastructure: Experience with model schema management, multi-version support, and model composition frameworks.

- Domain Contract Design: Track record defining and enforcing technical contracts between ML modeling, MLI, serving teams and/or product surfaces.

- Evaluation Velocity: Measurable impact improving the speed at which ML teams evaluate candidate models and ship to production.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Scala
- Python
- ML systems design
- feature stores
- training/serving consistency
- model versioning
- online/offline inference pipelines
- high-scale batch and real-time data pipelines
- Spark
- Airflow
- Kafka

### Nice to have
- Chronon
- Tecton
- Feast
- model schema management
- multi-version support
- model composition frameworks
- domain contract design

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