Early Career Software Engineer, Quality Platform

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Software Engineer in Quality Engineering to build and maintain automated testing, leverage AI, and integrate tests into CI/CD. You will work with product and engineering teams to improve test coverage across unit to end-to-end levels, and help deliver high-quality experiences for guests and hosts.

You will contribute to scalable testing processes, debug issues, and ensure robust test tooling across the stack in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in software engineering and testing.
• Proficiency in web development languages (TypeScript/JavaScript).
• Experience with test automation and QA tooling.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and code versioning (Git).
• Good communication in English.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and effectively utilize automated tests for features and releases.
• Leverage AI and tooling to implement the test automation strategy across the testing pyramid.
• Improve existing automation frameworks and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management and development.
• Troubleshoot, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes across complex systems.
• Contribute to high-quality code and engineering excellence.

Skills

Web development (TypeScript/JavaScript

Test automation

English communication

Ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Buildkite

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Airbnb was born 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems by building and using tools leveraging AI. We own and continuously improve product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, frameworks. We navigate Airbnb's massive codebase, identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable, fault-tolerant systems.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Help Airbnb leverage AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering
• As a Software Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability
• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions
• As a global company, our mission is to develop and maintain the necessary quality engineering processes that scale to meet the needs of both our external customers and internal teams. We strive to ensure that our product and support workflows deliver a seamless experience for guests, hosts, and support agents

A Typical Day:

• Build, maintain, and effectively utilize automated tests, collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participate in the continuous improvement of testing processes
• Leverage AI and tooling to implement the test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases
• Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency
• Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development
• Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release
• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles

Your Expertise:

• Up to 2+ years of industry experience in software engineering and testing
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one language used for web development (e.g., TypeScript, JavaScript) and comfort working in a backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go)
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands-on experience with web automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Familiarity with quality signals such as test coverage, flaky test rate, and suite execution time, and how they guide where to invest effort
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Comfort working through ambiguous problems, and collaborating across teams to deliver
• Curiosity about applying AI/LLMs to testing and developer productivity
• Comfortable collaborating in English
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [e-mail]. Please include your full name, the role you're applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

Reasonable Accommodations:

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.