Staff Backend Architect, Passport & Commerce

Airbnb; United States; On-site; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Passport team to shape the next generation of our account platform. You will set technical direction for how account state, eligibility, and entitlements are computed, stored, and served at scale across surfaces used by guests and hosts.

You will partner with product, design, and data partners to ensure reliability and rapid deployment of new programs, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions across teams while embracing the remote

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience designing and scaling complex distributed backend systems.
• Technical leader with architecture direction and team influence.
• Experience with reliability, performance, and data integrity in scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core services and data models for account state, eligibility, and entitlements.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers across multiple teams.
• Set technical direction and drive cross-team architecture decisions with partners.

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

API design

Mentoring engineers

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Passport team to shape the next generation of our account platform. You will set technical direction for how account state, eligibility, and entitlements are computed, stored, and served at scale across surfaces used by guests and hosts.

You will partner with product, design, and data partners to ensure reliability and rapid deployment of new programs, mentor engineers, and drive architecture decisions across teams while embracing the remote