Staff iOS Platform Engineer — AI Tooling (Remote)

airbnb, Inc.; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to drive AI-enhanced tooling for our iOS platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to improve developer productivity, contribute to large-scale migrations, and advance frameworks and build systems using Ruby and Swift. You’ll work remotely with occasional SF travel, helping to optimize AI agent workflows in a fast-growing, highly technical environment.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
• Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large scale migrations.
• Experience identifying and addressing inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
• iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.
• Nice to have build systems experience (e.g., Bazel).
• Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects that improve AI agents' effectiveness across the software development workflow.
• Collaborate with team members and cross functional partners to identify opportunities for improving developers' productivity.
• Improve our existing frameworks and toolings to deliver on our ambitious vision.

Skills

Senior software developer

iOS development (Swift)

Agentic AI in workflows

Large codebase experience

Tools

Ruby

Bazel

Job description

Airbnb, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to drive AI-enhanced tooling for our iOS platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional partners to improve developer productivity, contribute to large-scale migrations, and advance frameworks and build systems using Ruby and Swift. You’ll work remotely with occasional SF travel, helping to optimize AI agent workflows in a fast-growing, highly technical environment.