Staff Backend Engineer - Hosting Services at Airbnb

Airbnb

Remote - USA·10h ago

LeadFull-timeData Science

Salary Range

$153,000 - $207,000 /year

Estimated

This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.

About the Role

We are looking for a Hosting Services Staff Engineer to join our team at Airbnb. This role focuses on leading the development and refinement of major subsystems powering the hosting services systems.

Key Responsibilities

→Design the future state of our technical systems by combining a strategic understanding of our highest level product goals with a deep understanding of our existing systems
→Lead engineers—both inside and outside your immediate team—in building out these technical solutions
→Participate in the development of product and UX requirements by engaging early and often with designers, product managers and other stakeholders
→Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations
→Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
→Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence
→Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, UX and numerous platform teams within Airbnb

Requirements

✓9+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
✓Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures
✓Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality
✓Strong understanding of how deep backend systems are expressed in the UX shown to customers
✓End-to-end mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions
✓Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering organization
✓Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality and user experience