Senior Staff Engineer, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality)
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AirbnbTravel marketplace
This position is US - Remote Eligible.Full-TimeStaff
Salary$248,000 — $310,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry; 4+ years of experience in an Architect or Staff Engineer role
- Required Skills
- JavaKotlinData modelingDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 12+ years of relevant experience in the tech industry.
- 4+ years of experience in an Architect or Staff Engineer role, with ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems.
- Strong product and platform judgment, including understanding how backend architecture choices shape product velocity.
- Track record of setting and incrementally delivering a multi-year technical vision for a core platform.
- Deep backend expertise in distributed systems, data modeling, and API design for large-scale, business-critical platforms.
- Experience using Java, Kotlin, or similar languages.
- Experience designing APIs and data systems for AI-assisted features and agents, including data provenance, validation, and guardrails.
- Strong engineering skills and an operational mindset, with experience improving reliability and reducing operational load.
- Ability to influence across organizations and platform teams, set platform contracts, and align stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring senior and staff engineers.
Responsibilities
- Set the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for Listings and Quality backend.
- Partner with AI Platform, Trust, Infrastructure, and Product teams to shape architecture and platform contracts.
- Design APIs, data models, and data provenance to support AI-assisted features and agents.
- Generalize shared capabilities, consolidate duplicated systems, and enable product teams to build within guardrails.
- Improve reliability and engineering practices while reducing operational load on critical business-path systems.
- Contribute hands-on through development, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Mentor and support the career growth of individual contributors.
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