Staff Backend Engineer, Host Pricing & Availability

airbnb, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to lead the Host Pricing & Availability backend, shaping scalable systems that power pricing, calendar management, and host tooling. You will own technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and data science to deliver high-impact features.

You will architect APIs, data pipelines, and services for reliability and performance, balancing long-term quality with immediate business needs in a fast-growing marketplace.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of engineering experience with a BS/MS or PhD in CS or similar.
• Proven track record of leading teams and setting technical strategy.
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Experience influencing cross-functional partners and engineering teams.
• Strong judgment balancing short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the technical strategy for pricing and availability backend systems, ensuring APIs, services, and data pipelines are robust today and evolve with business needs.
• Lead development and optimization of Airbnb’s core pricing and availability products.
• Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new host pricing functionality and calendar management tools.
• Contribute to long-term backend system architecture within Host Pricing organization.
• Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers.

Skills

Team leadership

Backend systems

Cross-functional collaboration

System design

Problem solving

Debugging in production

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Staff Backend Engineer, Host Pricing & Availability

Remote - USA

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

The Host Pricing & Availability team builds the platform and tools that empower hosts to manage their business effectively. We help Airbnb hosts set competitive prices by providing market intelligence, comparable listing data, and demand signals. Additionally, we build advanced tools for seamless calendar management. As a critical component of Airbnb's business and a pillar of trust within our host community, we partner with the Search, Listings, Tax, and Payments teams to ensure accuracy and consistency across our pricing systems.

The Difference You Will Make

As a Staff Engineer on the Host Pricing and Availability team, you will drive the technical strategy and delivery of Airbnb's pricing product roadmap. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data Science to architect scalable solutions with clear domain boundaries, while continuously enhancing the performance, efficiency, and impact of our end-to-end architecture.

A Typical Day

• Architect and lead the technical strategy for our pricing and availability backend systems, ensuring APIs, services, and data pipelines are robust today and evolve alongside business needs.
• Lead the development and optimization of Airbnb’s core pricing and availability products.
• Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new host pricing functionality and calendar management tools.
• Contribute to the long-term backend system architecture within the Host Pricing organization.
• Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers to elevate the organization's technical maturity.

Your Expertise

• 9+ years of engineering experience with a BS/MS or PhD in CS or similar
• Proven track record of leading teams, setting technical strategy, and launching high-impact product features
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Experience influencing cross-functional partners and engineering teams.
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Strong problem-solving and production debugging abilities.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [e-mail] . Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.