Airbnb Staff Backend Engineer Guest Host- Cohosting 

United States 

812129758

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Co-Hosting Foundation Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and refinement of major subsystems powering the co-hosting systems. Responsibilities include creating and refining product features, ensuring seamless day-to-day operations, identifying patterns for streamlined development, and presenting technical and product insights to stakeholders. At the staff backend level, you’ll set a technical vision, delivering flexible, efficient, and scalable solutions aligning with business needs.

A Typical Day:

Designing Future States: Shape our technical systems’ future state by aligning high-level product goals with a deep understanding of existing systems, guiding strategic technical and product decisions for both short and long terms.
Leadership in Action: Lead engineers across teams in crafting technical solutions, engaging in the development of product and UX requirements, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Your Expertise:

• Proven Experience: A track record of 9+ years in the software development industry within a fast-paced tech environment.
• Backend Proficiency: Demonstrated expertise and be hands-on in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Strategic Decision-Making: Proven ability to exercise sound judgment in making trade-offs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• End-to-End Understanding: Experience with an end-to-end mentality, transcending team boundaries to find globally optimal solutions.
• Effective Communication: Excellent communication skills with a history of collaborating effectively within and across engineering teams.
• Quality Advocacy: Passionate about efficiency, availability, system quality, and user experience, demonstrated through prior projects.
• Architectural Excellence: Experience in architectural patterns of high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
• Collaborative Background: A track record of successfully working collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, and data science partners.

Preferred:

• Experience of access control for multi-user systems.
• Be curious about product problems and have an open mind to dive into new domains eg: gen-AI.
• Be enthusiastic about product development and be emphatic to users’ experiences.