# Staff Software Engineer, Passport & Commerce (Backend)

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $212,000-$265,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airbnb/jobs/8130817?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9bb7dabd-5ff

## Description

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Passport & Commerce team at Airbnb. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and building the next generation of our account platform, influencing how millions of guests and hosts experience Airbnb.

The Passport & Commerce team builds the trusted account and commerce foundation that enables anyone to become part of the Airbnb community. This involves creating a reliable and extensible platform that supports new programs and partner integrations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Designing and evolving core services and data models to track account state, eligibility, and entitlements

- Partnering with product and design to translate new product concepts into scalable technical designs

- Collaborating with Payments and Wallet engineering to ensure accurate settlement of credits and discounts

- Setting technical direction and leading design reviews across a growing team

- Driving cross-team architecture decisions to maintain consistency with Airbnb's broader Passport model

- Identifying and resolving reliability, scalability, and data-integrity risks

Requirements:

- 9+ years of experience designing and scaling complex backend systems

- Proven track record of technical leadership in high-growth environments

- Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including data consistency and API design

- Experience building or operating systems involving financial transactions or entitlements is strongly preferred

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

This is a remote-eligible position, and the base pay range is $212,000-$265,000 USD per year.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- backend systems
- API design
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- financial transactions
- entitlements
- mentoring senior engineers

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