Senior Fullstack Engineer, Quality Engineering

airbnb, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer, Quality Engineering to design and implement robust test strategies across web and services. You will lead automation initiatives, build scalable test suites, and collaborate with product engineering to ensure high-quality releases.

You will work across technologies, apply AI/LLMs to testing, and drive improvements in testability and reliability while operating in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering and testing.
• Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress).
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the test automation strategy across the testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, end-to-end).
• Build, maintain, and effectively utilize automated tests with close collaboration to ensure robust coverage.
• Improve existing automation frameworks to support new features and optimize quality.
• Collaborate with CI/CD teams to integrate automated testing into pipelines.
• Troubleshoot issues, isolate bugs, and verify fixes during testing and post-release.
• Collaborate across product management, development, and QE teams in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

Playwright

Cypress

Git

Communication

Problem solving

AI in testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Buildkite

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Senior Fullstack Engineer, Quality Engineering

Airbnb was born in 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, and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase, identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable, fault-tolerant systems.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering.
• As a Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack, you will help us meet this challenge by building and evolving comprehensive 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:

• Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases
• Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes
• 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:

• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering and testing
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Strong hands‑on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress)
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
• Experience using quality signals such as coverage, flaky test rate, suite execution time, and escaped defects to prioritize work and demonstrate impact
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
• Curiosity about applying AI/LLMs to testing and developer productivity
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively‑led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

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.