Airbnb

Staff Software Engineer, Listings & Host Tools and AI

Airbnb
remote staff full-time $204,000-$255,000 USD United States
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First indexed 18 Apr 2026

Description

We're looking for a data-focused Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft the next generation of tools for Airbnb hosts.

As a Staff Engineer, you will help drive the technology and implementation strategy to directly help hosts run their business day-to-day, proactively engaging with a wide range of teams and cross-functional partners to achieve your goals.

Your expertise will be crucial in exploring problem spaces, devising solutions to customer problems, and influencing product strategy.

In this role, you will:

  • Work with product and ML engineers to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
  • Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy
  • Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture
  • Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop backend to support data and AI solutions
  • Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hands-on implementation of those solutions
  • Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing
  • Perform technical design reviews and code reviews
  • Mentor and grow more junior engineers

If you have 10+ years of industry experience, experience leading teams, setting technical direction, building & launching high-impact user-facing products, and influencing partners such as designers and product managers as well as other engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you.

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.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airbnb/jobs/7528577