Staff Software Engineer Host Pricing & Settings jobs at Airbnb

Your day-to-day responsibilities includes:

• Collaborate with the other engineering teams across the stack while working closely with counterparts within Knowledge Graph, Search, Listings, Trips, and others to build scalable and high quality platforms and foundations.
• Work closely with cross functional partners to define and execute on products and features that enable our guests and hosts to set up their accounts and profiles quickly and easily.
• Build efficient and reusable backend components, architect reliable, performance and scalable systems.
• Evaluate and prototype new technologies and techniques that can enable faster iterations and execution across our tech stack.
• Mentor and support other engineers in the team or in related teams.

• 3+ years industry experience
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Experience in building and scaling high-quality and high-traffic products (or systems).
• Ability to evaluate technical approaches and design product solutions to solve real-world problems.
• Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders.

Offices: United States

The Community You Will Join:

an Android Studio plugin to supercharge IDE & Sync performance, among many others.

A Typical Day:

• 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 & build system to deliver on our ambitious vision.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of industry experience building Android apps using Kotlin.
• Experience building frameworks and build-systems (using Gradle, Bazel, etc.)
• Deep technical understanding of how dependency injection systems work (e.g. Dagger)
• Experience building code generation tools (e.g. annotation processors, KSP, Kotlin compiler plugins)
• Experience working in medium to large-scale codebases.
• [Nice to have] 2+ years of experience using Jetpack Compose.
• [Nice to have] Experience building Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA plugins.
• [Nice to have] Experience using Compose for desktop.
• Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

You will lead business development, deal negotiation, and strategic relationship management for a portfolio of high-value payment partners. With a focus on impact and long-term alignment, you'll help craft our partner landscape, structure and renegotiate commercial agreements, and serve as a critical voice in expanding and optimizing how payments to hosts are enabled around the world.

A Typical Day:

Strategic Partner Leadership

• Define and evolve our payout partner strategy in collaboration with the broader Payments, Product, Compliance and Finance teams to ensure coverage, performance, and alignment with Airbnb’s strategic and financial goals.
• Identify the right partners in each market, structure new deals, and renegotiate existing relationships to optimize for cost, reliability, reach, and innovation.
• Drive global deal execution for payouts—developing commercial structures, navigating regional regulatory constraints, and shaping contracts to meet Airbnb’s evolving needs.

Relationship Management and Performance

• Own and cultivate high-impact relationships with financial institutions, payment processors, banks, and other key partners, managing executive-level engagement to ensure Airbnb is a priority client.
• Monitor partner performance rigorously, identify gaps or opportunities, and lead cross-functional efforts to address issues or evolve terms.
• Lead strategic business reviews and act as the point of escalation and problem resolution for performance or operational misalignment.

Global Payments Strategy & Influence

• Assist in the ongoing scaling ofAirbnb’s payout infrastructure—ensuring that partner decisions reflect regional needs, market conditions, cost structures, and regulatory environments.
• Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Treasury, Risk, Product, Engineering, and Global Operations to align execution with global strategy.
• Stay ahead of industry and macroeconomic changes affecting international payments and proactively bring forward opportunities and risk mitigation strategies.

Your Expertise:

Relationship-Driven Growth

• 10+ years of experience in the payments or fintech industry, with at least 8 years in strategic partnerships, business development, or enterprise account management.
• Demonstrated success in owning commercial negotiations and managing multi-million dollar partnerships that balance customer experience, innovation, and financial return.
• Proven ability to craft and execute partner strategies that result in measurable business growth and process improvement.

Execution & Strategic Alignment

• Deep knowledge of global payment methods, financial products, and cross-border payout solutions.
• Understanding of payments cost structure (e.g., interchange, chargebacks, FX, treasury flow), and experience optimizing it through partner levers.
• Experience in resolving partner conflicts or escalations, ideally across multiple markets or regulatory contexts.

Influence & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Strong storytelling and analytical skills, using data to advocate for business needs and influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Success working in highly matrixed environments, bringing together diverse stakeholders to move complex partnerships forward.
• A passion for creating inclusive, innovative environments that foster collaboration and high performance.

Preferred Qualifications

• International payments experience, especially in marketplace or platform models.
• Experience in platform organizations advising internal stakeholders on partner enablement strategy.
• Experience working with regulators or regulated partners in cross-border payout environments.
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree is a plus.

Offices: United States

A Typical Day:

• Work closely with Android and iOS engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross platform solutions.
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved path tooling and frameworks.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings.
• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Proven track record working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting medium to large engineering organizations.
• Excellent engineering and coding skills, with a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers and driving best practices for web client development.
• Motivation for personal growth and a commitment to learning new technologies to support the team’s evolving needs.
• Interest in innovations within the web industry and a passion for staying current with emerging trends.
• Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI (command line interface) applications. Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus.

Offices: United States

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Engineer in Pricing and Availability, you’ll lead large projects spanning engineers, services, and products. You will transform business needs into technical requirements, drive scoping, and lead implementation while coordinating with stakeholders and peer teams. And, importantly, you’ll mentor and support engineers on our team.

At the Senior Engineer level, you’ll help lead the development and refinement of major new features on Airbnb. This includes shaping desired product goals into a viable guest user experience, while also helping increase developer velocity by preserving technical quality on critical surfaces for the Airbnb guest experience.

A Typical Day:

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation
• Nurture a culture of happy healthy teams including supportive feedback, technical quality, and having fun
• Identify and propose solutions to problems that might otherwise create dissonance between technical and product engineering excellence
• Collaborate with internal teams across Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Listings, Payments, Tax, Cities, Trust and others

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team, and across teams, at Airbnb
• Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders.
• Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions.
• Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) skills for hands-on IC work
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment

Offices: United States

The difference you will make:

As a member of this team you would be working with talented engineers on building infrastructure to solve cutting edge experimentation problems. The primary focus of this position will be on our platform’s results computation stack, consisting of data pipelines, a grammar for experimentation, and an analysis engine. You will bring a deep understanding of data processing, API design and experimentation methodology to help us reliably and accurately calculate results at scale, and to push the boundaries of what we can learn from experiments. The stack you would be working with consists of technologies like Spark, Trino, Python, and Airflow.

A typical day:

• Work to build, maintain, optimize and extend complex and large scale data processing pipelines.
• Contribute to Airbnb’s library for flexible and extensible on-demand analysis of experiments.
• Partner with teams across the organization to improve the impact of experimentation across the company. Participate in all phases of software development of the overall platform from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.
• Work closely with Data Science partners to implement sophisticated statistical methodologies into the platform.

• Participate in experiment reviews to understand how our customers use our infrastructure, identify areas for improvement and learn about features rolling out across the company.

Your expertise:

• 9+ years in a hands-on software engineering role, shipping high quality code to production, especially for high scale, distributed systems, data pipelines, and/or analytical libraries.
• Experience with at least one modern, general programming language (e.g. Python, Java)
• Experience with scientific/statistical computation, especially involving online experimentation
• Experience building software with ergonomic interfaces and great developer experience, especially for technical data users (e.g. data scientists).
• Experience with at least one modern “big data” technology (e.g. Spark, Dataflow)
• Strong SQL skills - you should be able to “go deep” when debugging or optimizing.
• [Nice to have] Experience building frameworks which generate data pipelines at scale.
• [Nice to have] Experience with a distributed stream processing framework (e.g. Flink, Kafka, Dataflow)

Offices: United States

The Community You Will Join:

You will join a team dedicated to driving innovation and optimizing our dynamic Marketplace. As a member of the Marketplace Data Science team, you will tackle challenges at the core of our business, including pricing, supply management, and fee strategies. Collaborating with leaders across the company, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our marketplace.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Data Scientist, you will be responsible for building data products, inference frameworks, and intelligence to enable the growth of our marketplace. Your work will include:

• Specifying and estimating models to determine the impact of supply and demand on marketplace outcomes
• Delivering data and insights to enable the company’s supply growth efforts
• Providing mentorship to other data scientists and exemplifying a high bar for technical excellence

A Typical Day:

• Crafting models: You will develop models to accurately forecast key marketplace metrics, enabling proactive decision-making and strategic planning.
• Advanced causal inference: Utilizing cutting-edge causal inference techniques, you will quantify the impact of changes in supply and demand on the marketplace, informing targeted improvements and interventions.
• Cross-functional collaboration: You will actively collaborate with teams across product, engineering, and operations to integrate data science insights into initiatives aimed at enhancing supply acquisition, retention, and success.
• Stakeholder engagement: You will engage with stakeholders to understand their business objectives and provide data-driven solutions tailored to these goals.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of relevant industry experience and a Master’s degree or PhD in a quantitative field
• Strong fluency in Python or R for hands-on IC work and SQL for advanced data analysis at scale
• Experience with causal inference and machine learning techniques, ideally in a multi-sided platform setting
• Proven ability to succeed in collaborative environments with cross-functional stakeholders and also in independent work environments
• Proven ability to communicate clearly and effectively to audiences of varying technical levels

Offices: United States