Senior Fullstack Infra Engineer Globalization Platform

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

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking an experienced software engineer for the Internationalization Infrastructure team. You will help build scalable translation workflows, APIs, and libraries that power multilingual experiences for guests and hosts worldwide.

You will prototype ML-enabled capabilities, partner with Globalization, Data Science, and product teams, and own end-to-end delivery from design through deployment, improving quality, latency, and cost efficiency at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience with a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong programming skills 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.
• Proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript and React or comparable modern web technologies.
• Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly.
• 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.
• Passion for globalization, inclusive user experiences, and building infrastructure for a worldwide community.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-scale translation workflows, APIs, UIs, and libraries for multilingual experiences across Airbnb.
• Contribute to safe migrations, improving reliability, observability, latency, security, and cost efficiency.
• Prototype ML-enabled capabilities, turning ideas into durable platform features.
• Collaborate across Globalization, Data Science and ML, product and platform teams, and external vendors.
• Measure success by quality, cost, latency, adoption, developer productivity, and operational load.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

C++

Backend language

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Airbnb is seeking an experienced software engineer for the Internationalization Infrastructure team. You will help build scalable translation workflows, APIs, and libraries that power multilingual experiences for guests and hosts worldwide.

You will prototype ML-enabled capabilities, partner with Globalization, Data Science, and product teams, and own end-to-end delivery from design through deployment, improving quality, latency, and cost efficiency at scale.