Staff Software Engineer, Passport & Commerce (Remote)

Sharkey; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Equity

Employee travel credits

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Airbnb seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Passport team to shape the next generation of the account platform. You will define how account state, eligibility, and entitlements are computed, stored, and served at scale across surfaces where guests or hosts interact with Airbnb.

As a technical leader, you will partner with Payments, Wallet, Identity & Privacy, Profile & Community to stand up the roadmap and foundations, drive reliability and extensibility, and mentor engineers across multiple

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience designing and scaling complex, distributed backend systems.
• Proven track record of technical leadership in high-growth environments.
• Architectural direction experience across a team or domain.
• Expertise in distributed systems fundamentals (data consistency, caching, service decomposition, API design at scale).
• Experience with financial transactions, entitlements, or stateful account data preferred.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity on a newly formed team.
• Strong written and verbal communication across engineering, product, design.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core services and data models that track account state, eligibility, and entitlements across millions of accounts.
• Translate product concepts into scalable, extensible technical designs.
• Collaborate with Payments and Wallet engineering to ensure credits, discounts, and host-funded programs settle end-to-end.
• Set technical direction and lead design reviews across a growing team, mentoring engineers.
• Drive cross-team architecture decisions with Identity & Privacy and Profile & Community teams to keep account state consistent.
• Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, and data-integrity risks before they affect guests or hosts.

Skills

Distributed backend systems

Technical leadership

Architecture direction

API design at scale

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Written and verbal communication

Ambiguity management

Stateful account data

Job description

Airbnb seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Passport team to shape the next generation of the account platform. You will define how account state, eligibility, and entitlements are computed, stored, and served at scale across surfaces where guests or hosts interact with Airbnb.

As a technical leader, you will partner with Payments, Wallet, Identity & Privacy, Profile & Community to stand up the roadmap and foundations, drive reliability and extensibility, and mentor engineers across multiple