Senior Software Engineer, Users Foundation (Fully Remote)

Airbnb; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb seeks a senior backend engineer to design, build, and operate distributed backend services and APIs that underpin core platform functionality.

You will lead multi-engineer projects end-to-end, collaborating with cross-functional teams to plan and safely roll out changes to shared infrastructure, while owning production services with a focus on reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience owning production services end-to-end.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, messaging, data consistency, and service reliability.
• Track record leading ambiguous, multi-month projects across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that are core dependencies across the platform.
• Lead multi-engineer projects end-to-end, from problem definition through rollout and operations.
• Partner with engineering teams to plan and safely execute changes to shared infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Production services ownership

Leadership in multi-engineer projects

Job description

• At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
• The Users Foundation team owns User Data at Airbnb, the identity and account information behind every guest and host interaction.
• Our systems sit at the center of the platform, so reliability, correctness, and scale are the job.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Design and build distributed systems that handle enormous scale with strict correctness and reliability requirements.
• Work closely with engineering teams across Airbnb to ship changes safely to infrastructure they depend on.
• Set technical direction, lead tradeoff discussions, and influence how foundational systems evolve.

A Typical Day:

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that are core dependencies across the platform.
• Lead multi-engineer projects end-to-end, from problem definition through rollout and operations.
• Partner with engineering teams to plan and safely execute changes to shared infrastructure.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with owning production services end-to-end.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, including messaging/eventing, data consistency, and service reliability.
• Track record of leading ambiguous, multi-month projects and driving technical decisions across team boundaries.

Airbnb

Airbnb is a global online marketplace for stays and experiences, founded in 2007 and now boasting over 5 million hosts and 2 billion guest arrivals worldwide. The company fosters a culture of belonging and inclusion, committed to creating a world where anyone can belong anywhere.