Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Core Services – Infrastructure 

United States 

122939979

A Typical Day:

The engineer on the I18n Infra team will work on distributed systems, infrastructure, toolings, and workflows, which are critical to the success of Airbnb products among our global audience. The i18n Infra team owns a wide range of components, with different level requirements on performance and customization, to adapt to the complexities of global markets and business. In this role, you will have need to:

• Build scalable systems supporting high volume real time translation requests and efficient retrieval of translated content
• Build intuitive workflows and tools to serve the needs of our stakeholders, business partners, and end users
• Partner with a broad range of cross-functional stakeholders to determine the right strategy for localization across asset categories
• Drive down costs, improve quality, and land efficiency wins via impactful optimizations and infrastructure upgrades
• Be part of an impactful infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices on internationalization
• Mentor and partner effectively with other engineers and the leadership team to build a positive team culture

We’re looking for engineers who can:

• Drive (responsible and accountable for) projects with large open-ended scope spanning a product or platform, and contribute to organizational priorities.
• Influence stakeholders and coordinate across functions to adopt effective goals or roadmaps, collaborate and deliver.
• Foster an inclusive environment for immediate team members and cross-functional partners, and ensures effective communication
• Define and incorporate standards for quality and operational excellence for the i18n products/services.
• Be owners and stewards of Airbnb’s multilingual capabilities

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 9+ years of industry experience
• Strong programming (Java / Kotlin / C++ or equivalent) skills for hands-on IC work
• Demonstrate strong expertise and be hands-on in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features
• Experience in popular storage systems such as relational databases, noSQL and caching.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• Able to architect localization infrastructure with a good understanding of client facing interfaces, and willing to dive into JavaScript / Typescript and related web technologies
• Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React and GraphQL) is a plus
• Passionate about globalization, user experience, efficiency, availability, and system quality