Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform

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 iOS Platform team’s mission is to provide best-in-class experience for iOS development at Airbnb to empower engineers to deliver innovative solutions with high velocity and quality at scale.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving projects that improve AI agents’ effectiveness across the software development workflow by providing the right tools to get work done efficiently and reliably, with high-quality results.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with team members & cross functional partners to identify opportunities for improving our developers’ productivity.
• Drive roadmap projects and deliver high-quality results to further our mission.
• Improve our existing frameworks & toolings to deliver on our ambitious vision.

Requirements:

• 9+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Experience building reliable developer tooling in Go.
• Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
• Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large scale migrations.
• Experience identifying and addressing inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
• Experience working in medium- to large-scale codebases.
• iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.

Nice to have:

• Experience designing and developing build systems (e.g. Bazel).

Benefits:

• The base pay range is $212,000-$265,000 USD.
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.