Staff Backend Engineer – Data & ML Systems

Airbnb, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help build the next generation of data and ML systems on the Supply & Competitive Intelligence team in San Francisco.

You will lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and ML teams to deliver high-impact, robust backend capabilities. You will influence partners across design, product management, and other engineering groups, shape API/architecture decisions, and drive execution from prototype to production.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience.
• Experience leading teams and setting technical direction.
• Experience influencing designers, product managers and engineering teams.
• Ability to ideate, prototype, and influence product direction.
• Excellent communication skills and teamwork across engineering teams.
• Proven ability to mentor and grow junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Work with product and ML engineers to explore problem spaces and devise solutions to customer problems
• Prototype new ideas and influence the product strategy
• Proactively collaborate with other engineering teams to develop an iterative plan to improve our APIs and architecture
• Collaborate with other product engineers and partners to develop backend to support data and AI solutions
• Create technical and execution strategies for new projects and drive hand‑ons implementation of those solutions
• Identify areas for improvement and champion the adoption of best practices in product development, engineering architecture, and testing
• Perform technical design reviews and code reviews
• Mentor and grow more junior engineers.

Skills

Leadership experience

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Communication skills

Influencing product direction

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to help build the next generation of data and ML systems on the Supply & Competitive Intelligence team in San Francisco.

You will lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and ML teams to deliver high-impact, robust backend capabilities. You will influence partners across design, product management, and other engineering groups, shape API/architecture decisions, and drive execution from prototype to production.