Senior Globalization Infrastructure Engineer (AI/ML)

airbnb, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer for the Internationalization Infrastructure within the Applications Platform. You will help build scalable translation workflows, APIs, UIs, and libraries supporting Airbnb's multilingual experiences for guests and hosts worldwide.

You will collaborate with Globalization, Data Science and ML, product and platform teams, and external vendors to reduce friction and enable responsible experimentation with AI-enabled platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, C++ or comparable backend language.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, APIs, storage and caching systems at scale.
• Experience evolving production systems with migrations, testing, observability, and ownership.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Data-informed approach to system quality, reliability, efficiency and user experience.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and ML/AI exploration is valued.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-scale translation workflows, APIs, UIs, and libraries for Airbnb’s internationalization platform.
• Improve legacy systems with safe migrations, boosting reliability, latency, security, and cost efficiency.
• Prototype ML and large language model applications, turning ideas into durable platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with Globalization, Data Science, and product teams to reduce friction for users worldwide.
• Measure success by quality, cost, latency, adoption, developer productivity, and operational load.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

C++

Distributed systems

APIs

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

APIs

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer for the Internationalization Infrastructure within the Applications Platform. You will help build scalable translation workflows, APIs, UIs, and libraries supporting Airbnb's multilingual experiences for guests and hosts worldwide.

You will collaborate with Globalization, Data Science and ML, product and platform teams, and external vendors to reduce friction and enable responsible experimentation with AI-enabled platform capabilities.