# Staff Software Engineer, Service Tools

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: USA
**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

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## Description

### Job Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Service Tools team at Airbnb, you will play a crucial role in enabling backend developers to develop, test, and maintain their code quickly and reliably.

### The Difference You Will Make

The Service Tools team's mission is to empower Airbnb's largest cohort of developers, and you will be responsible for their productivity. As a Staff Engineer, you will set technical direction, own a platform-spanning area of the developer lifecycle end-to-end, and drive a roadmap with partner teams across the company.

### Key Responsibilities

- Own a multi-quarter, platform-spanning workstream, such as agentic developer workflows, intelligent build infrastructure, test excellence, codebase modernization, or developer observability

- Advance the AI-assisted development platform, including agent skills, tool integrations, and telemetry

- Scale build and merge infrastructure for a large JVM monorepo

- Improve testing, including coverage, mutation signal, AI-authored tests, and testing contracts

- Lead large-scale codebase modernization through automated refactoring

- Turn developer and production telemetry into actionable decisions

- Set standards by example through code and architecture reviews, design docs, and incident reviews

- Mentor and grow engineers on the team

- Partner with engineering leaders across Airbnb to drive adoption of new capabilities

### Requirements

- 9+ years of industry experience with a Bachelor's/Master's degree, or 6+ years with a PhD

- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

- Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages

- Experience with architectural patterns of high-scale distributed products/services

- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams and functions

### Nice to Have

- Experience with build systems and large monorepos

- JVM experience (Java and/or Kotlin)

- Fluency with the modern AI-assisted development stack

- Measurement instinct and ability to quantify problems and prove fixes

### What We Offer

- Competitive salary ($212,000 - $265,000 USD)

- Bonus and equity opportunities

- Comprehensive benefits package

- Employee Travel Credits

### Location

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Backend development
- AI-assisted development
- Build systems
- Large monorepos
- JVM experience
- Distributed systems
- Testing and validation

### Nice to have
- Bazel
- Remote build execution
- Kotlin
- Measurement and analytics

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