Staff Backend Engineer, Pricing & Availability — Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Equity opportunities

Employee Travel Credits

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Host Pricing & Availability team. You will drive the technical strategy and delivery of the pricing product roadmap, architect scalable systems, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape end-to-end solutions.

You will lead the development of core pricing features, optimize calendar management tools, and mentor senior engineers to raise technical maturity across the organization. This role is US-based with remote eligibility.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Backend systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Production debugging

Clear communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CS or related

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Engineer for the Host Pricing & Availability team. You will drive the technical strategy and delivery of the pricing product roadmap, architect scalable systems, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Data Science to shape end-to-end solutions.

You will lead the development of core pricing features, optimize calendar management tools, and mentor senior engineers to raise technical maturity across the organization. This role is US-based with remote eligibility.