Airbnb Senior Staff Software Engineer AI Developer Productivity 

United States 

932354092

The Difference You Will Make:

In this role, you will spearhead our AI strategy aimed at enhancing developer productivity across our entire development lifecycle (build, test and deploy). This encompasses AI-based automatic test generation, AI-based code generation for our internal frameworks, design to code, and AI-assisted migrations, AI-assisted code reviews, among others. Given the rapid evolution of AI, this team is expected to function like a startup, iterating swiftly to incorporate the most recent AI technologies into our developer tooling.

A Typical Day:

• Formulate our AI for Developer strategy and incorporate AI into the daily tools utilized by developers.
• Bring technical expertise to decision making and architecture, having a keen eye for constraints while building the best solution.
• Experience & willingness to get hands on with coding across the entire stack to build and ship various AI tools. We will be operating as a startup and being hands on in code to get stuff done is necessary expectation.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders across Airbnb to facilitate the adoption of new capabilities. Your clientele will comprise all engineers at Airbnb.
• Act as a player/coach of our high-performance team, ensuring code quality, dedication to the craft, and operational excellence.

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years industry experience.
• Extensive experience with developer tooling and platforms, ideally with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industry
• Demonstrated experience in applying AI/ML and Generative AI technologies within the context of software development is a huge plus
• Ability to create a culture of technical excellence
• Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
• Experienced in architectural patterns of a high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms