Senior Fullstack Engineer, Internationalization Infra

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Employee Travel Credits

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an engineer for the Internationalization Infrastructure team to design and operate distributed systems and translation workflows at scale. You will contribute to tooling that enables multilingual content and improve quality, reliability, and cost efficiency across the platform.

You will partner with Globalization, Data Science and ML, and product teams to reduce friction and deliver robust, AI-enabled capabilities for a worldwide audience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS or Master's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong programming skills for hands-on individual-contributor work in Java, Kotlin, C++, or a comparable backend language.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, APIs, storage and caching systems, event-driven processing, or service-oriented architectures at scale.
• Experience evolving production systems through incremental migrations, testing, observability, and operational ownership.
• Proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript and experience with React or comparable modern web technologies sufficient to own internal workflows end to end.
• Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering and non-engineering partners.
• A data-informed approach to system quality, reliability, efficiency, and customer experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and agents to accelerate discovery, prototyping, implementation, testing, and documentation, with sound judgment about quality and verification.
• Passion for globalization, inclusive user experiences, and building infrastructure that helps teams serve a worldwide community.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-scale translation workflows, APIs, UIs, and libraries that provide consistent paved paths across Airbnb.
• Simplify legacy systems through safe migrations while improving reliability, observability, latency, security, and cost efficiency.
• Prototype applications of machine learning and large language models, then turn validated ideas into durable platform capabilities.
• Partner across Globalization, Data Science and ML, product and platform teams, and external vendors to solve ambiguous customer problems.
• Measure success through outcomes such as quality, cost, latency, adoption, developer productivity, and operational load.

Skills

Java/Kotlin/C++

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Distributed systems

AI-assisted development

Education

BS or MS in CS

Tools

React

Java

Kotlin

C++

Job description

Airbnb is seeking an engineer for the Internationalization Infrastructure team to design and operate distributed systems and translation workflows at scale. You will contribute to tooling that enables multilingual content and improve quality, reliability, and cost efficiency across the platform.

You will partner with Globalization, Data Science and ML, and product teams to reduce friction and deliver robust, AI-enabled capabilities for a worldwide audience.