Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Booking Orchestration 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

As a Booking Orchestration Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and refinement of major subsystems that power Airbnb bookings. You will put your experience with distributed systems and business workflow systems at work, playing a pivotal role in transforming the booking ecosystem.

A Typical Day:

• Lead booking engineering projects to improve booking experience, system scalability and performance.
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors.
• Write and review technical designs that solve large, open-ended foundational technical problems without clearly-known solutions
• Ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Bookings and organizations such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions
• Proactively grows knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving workflow orchestration systems
• Self-driven and ability to be accountable for key deliverables in our booking system

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience
• Experience building Booking/Ordering or relevant systems
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams
• Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers