Staff Software Engineer Ai Dev Productivity jobs at Airbnb

A Typical Day:

As a Senior iOS Engineer on Core Foundation, you will:

• Collaborate with partner teams and product engineers to design and develop high quality APIs that compliment product engineers’ day to day flows.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality pull requests and reviewing other’s pull requests.
• Build thorough tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create architecture design documents for new projects and review other’s design documents.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering.

Your Expertise :

We’re looking for a Senior iOS Software Engineer with passion for making the client experience performant through foundational paved path, with the following skill sets, experience, and passions:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years industry experience.
• Fluency in Swift and experience with SwiftUI or other declarative UI building frameworks.
• Experience building codegen tools, codemods, and lint rules.
• Deep understanding of iOS core libraries.
• Expertise of client and environmental performance considerations.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team which touches many parts of core systems at Airbnb.

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

As part of our team, you'll build the essential AI/ML data foundations powering all AI/ML use cases across Airbnb—spanning Trust & Safety, Payments, Customer Support, Marketing, Search Ranking, and more. You’ll define and implement industry-leading best practices, pipelines, and tools to streamline data creation and consumption, ensuring efficiency, consistency, and compliance. Your contributions will significantly accelerate AI/ML innovation, enabling rapid development and deployment of high-quality, impactful AI/ML solutions company-wide. Additionally, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping our cutting-edge Generative AI infrastructure, positioning .

A Typical Day:

• Design, build, automate, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines using SparkSQL, Scala, and Airflow.
• Develop and optimize data models ensuring high-quality, consistent, and accurate data to support broad AI/ML product feature decisions.
• Collaborate closely with peer ML Infra teams to deliver automated data solutions driving AI/ML acceleration.
• Contribute to scalable GenAI infrastructure by leveraging foundational language and vision models to create high quality datasets that power cutting edge GenAI applications.
• Partner with key customer teams to deliver high-impact, high-quality datasets core to Airbnb's roadmap.
• Utilize leading open-source technologies including Spark, Airflow, Ray, MLFlow, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (BS/Masters) or 2+ years with a PhD.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Java, or equivalent languages.
• Hands-on experience with distributed processing technologies (Spark, Kafka, Flink, Hadoop) and distributed storage (HDFS, S3).
• Solid knowledge of data warehousing concepts and databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse).
• Expertise building scalable ETL pipelines using schedulers like Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, or AWS Glue.
• Proven ability to analyze large datasets, identify insights, and drive impactful product solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable collaborating cross-functionally.
• Experience building end-to-end Machine Learning platforms and deploying ML models.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and modern infrastructure tools.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and engineering best practices.

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

As a staff software engineer on the Content Platform team, you’ll provide hands-on technical leadership to build a no-code or low-code platform to bring together a thoughtful user experience for Marketing to author, segment, and plan lifecycle management of communications on onsite ( ) and offsite (emails, push notification) channels. You’ll be working alongside a team of talented software engineers to improve our usability of our platform of tools, reducing time-to-market for our internal teams, and developing technical strategic planning towards driving a best-in-class scalable platform. You will also work closely with XFN partners like design, product and marketing stakeholders to dive deep into solving problems that have a direct growth impact on our business.

A Typical Day:

As a Staff Software Engineer on Content Platform, you will:

• Design the future state of our platform and systems by incorporating product-first mentality of our users and their end-to-end workflows
• 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 Marketing stakeholders to help steer teams on the most efficient path towards overall goals
• 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 internal teams across Marketing Technologies, ML, Growth Marketing, and Creative
• At the staff+ level, our engineers are responsible for establishing a technical vision and then delivering a solution that is flexible, always available, efficient, and scales with the needs of the business. Each individual brings their own unique skill set, experiences, thought leadership and technical expertise to solve these technical challenges for Airbnb.

Your Expertise :

• 9+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers.
• Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.
• Bonus - if you’ve worked in Marketing Technologies

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you'll architect and implement security solutions that protect millions of users while empowering thousands of developers. You'll be at the forefront of creating a security-first engineering culture, building tools and frameworks that make secure development the path of least resistance. We're building the next generation of security-first development tools and practices that will shape the future of secure software engineering.

A Typical Day:

Here are a few things you’ll do in this role:

• Lead the design, development, launch, and operation of scalable and reusable solutions that address systemic security issues across teams, showcasing your leadership and expertise.
• Drive technical security innovation by developing new coding standards for the team and organization, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide input and influence architectural decisions to ensure security, scalability, quality and resilience in major product features and platform services.
• Take a hands-on role in designing and implementing secure software.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers to build performant, developer-friendly solutions that integrate security into developer tools, libraries, and frameworks.
• Support secure development strategies, tooling, and product-specific security features with engineering teams to help detect and prevent diverse security issues.
• Build and maintain automation frameworks to validate deployed software against security requirements.

Your Expertise:

The following are some examples of profiles that are relevant to us. If a subset of these applies to you, please consider applying. We are looking to build a team of both security experience and software engineering generalists.

• 5+ years of software development in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Kotlin, Golang, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure software systems.
• Thorough understanding of secure development methodologies and best practices.
• Experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and contributing to open-source tools.
• Experience with static and/or dynamic analysis.
• Experience building secure-by-default libraries or frameworks.
• Experience securing cloud infrastructure, particularly in AWS.
• Experience with mobile or web application security is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform and HCL is a plus.
• Experience building developer tools and infrastructure is a plus.

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

• Establish the vision for a suite of AI/ML products based on the value we can provide
• Develop the product roadmap and build consensus on prioritization which drives product execution
• Challenge the status quo and inspire people toward a unified outcome
• Define goals and success with clearly measurable objectives and key results
• Efficiently execute to ship products and deliver impact for our business and users
• Communicate concisely and influence outcomes
• Build alignment across product teams, cross-functional partners (FP&A, Marketing, Operations, Customer Experience, Trust, etc.) and Leadership/Executive team
• Drive product development with a world-class team of Engineers, Data Scientists and Operations Leads and Policy Experts
• Prioritize work based on inputs from many stakeholders, while being flexible to iterate/change
• Evaluate new product opportunities and bring forward proposals (buy, build, partner solutions) for new capabilities with data and users at the forefront

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years of product management experience
• 2+ years of building AI/ML products or technical product management
• Prior product, operation, or engineering experience working in Security, Trust, Safety, or Fraud
• Ability to carefully trade-off fraud prevention and impact to good users
• Radical thinking paired with strong execution. Can envision a world different than the status quo with the ability to articulate a clear path to get there
• Strong cross-customer collaboration: harmonizes strategies and needs of multiple customers; influences customer strategy and plans
• Outstanding written and verbal communication ability to a diverse stakeholder audience, including a global team of C-level executives, product, and technical stakeholders
• Self-motivated and proactive, with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Innate capability to, directly and indirectly, lead teams through success

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

• Collaborate with partner teams and product engineers to design and develop high quality APIs that compliment product engineers’ day to day flows.
• Be an active contributor to your projects by creating high quality pull requests and reviewing other’s pull requests.
• Build thorough tests to ensure the reliability and performance of the software you create.
• Create architecture design documents for new projects and review other’s design documents.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in Web development and performance engineering.

Your Expertise:

We’re looking for an Senior Frontend Engineer with passion for making the desktop and mobile web fast and easy to develop on, with the following skill sets, experience, and passions:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years' industry experience in Web Client / Product Foundation focuses.
• Fluency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related web technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React, npm, webpack...)
• Deep expertise of client-side and server-side performance considerations and cross-browser compatibility issues
• Experience with improving architecture and developer tooling/libraries of a high traffic website
• Strong collaboration with partner teams in a remote environment
• Deep experience of understanding and solving engineering productivity pain points
• Solid engineering and coding skills. Demonstrated knowledge of data structures and asynchronous programming
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Ability to work in areas outside of your usual comfort zone and show motivation for personal growth

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

On any given day you will be operating across many of the following areas and expectations:

• People Development: You have multiple years of experience in people management and supporting managers best support their teams. You are an effective career coach and can provide mentorship and feedback both technically and professionally. You enjoy investing in your teammates and developing growth and career progression plans with them to help them reach their highest potential. You provide your people autonomy and in return, you expect the people you support to be self-driven and proactive.
• Team Development: You are an effective leader that focuses on efficiency, quality, accountability, and delivering on and above expectations. You play an active and primary role in identifying and recruiting top talent and supporting your teams to do so. You understand when to roll up your sleeves and contribute and when to delegate and grow your managers, teammates, and cross-functional partners.
• Technical Leadership: You have experience in developing and communicating effective and pragmatic strategies, supporting your managers to do so, and ensuring your teams are executing accordingly. You don’t wait for things to happen to you, you make things happen and ensure your managers and team members do so as well. You see across the functions you support and partner organizations to ensure alignment to common priorities and objectives while course correcting where needed. This means you’re close enough to the work to spot alignment issues while also not inhibiting your team’s speed. You have multiple years of experience establishing, growing, and or maturing software engineering functions. You see beyond the immediate functions you support to tie software engineering priorities into a broader, integrated, and unified Information Security strategy.
• Function development: You have experience establishing and building a multi-disciplinary team for a global company that focuses on engineering and related operational activities.
• Influence & Communication: You have strong written and verbal communication skills. You can dive into the details with technical and non-technical audiences alike but also speak at the appropriate altitude when working with other organizations and leaders. You have empathy and seek to understand when communicating. This enables you to effectively identify the best path forward and influence how you approach a problem, as well as how other teams may prioritize supporting your work.
• Security Culture and Philosophy: you embrace the notion we are here to help Airbnb build and operate the business, securely. You understand that improving security doesn’t mean introducing friction unless absolutely necessary. We are a culture of helping others find the path to “yes” and help others find the most secure path while not inhibiting Airbnb to achieve business objectives. You are stakeholder focused. You drive this culture and philosophy within your organization and help the entire Information Security develop and uphold this culture.

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years managing people with at least 3 of those years supporting other managers
• Experience with AWS (GuardDuty, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, SNS, SQS, EC2, ...)
• Past experience in Software development
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar
• Demonstrated ability to support, scale, and advance like functions
• Deep understanding of strategic approaches and methodologies across the lifecycle of prevention, detection, response, and validation and how your teams fit in and are responsible for across these pillars and various programs that comprise Information Security.
• Experience of disciplines spans corporate and product infrastructure as well as third party tooling and infrastructure.

Offices: United States