Staff Software Engineer, UI Tooling & Kyber Platform

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

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the UI Tooling team to lead Kyber, our prototyping and rapid deployment platform. You will drive architecture, scale, and integration across internal projects and non-technical builders.

You will own strategy across rebuilding Kyber onto next-gen cloud platforms, evolving capabilities for product development, and integrating Kyber into our ecosystem to accelerate prototyping workflows. Remote eligible in the US.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of industry experience, ideally within fast-paced environments, with a track record of delivering large-scale service oriented systems.
• Broad full-stack engineering capability, across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs and system architecture.
• Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one, contributing to product definition, technical architecture, development and launch.
• End-to-end product ownership, with experience iterating on launched products, responding to customer feedback and improving adoption, usability and business outcomes.
• Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, well-designed APIs, data pipelines, efficient algorithms and reliable integrations.
• Sound technical judgment, with the ability to balance speed of delivery, experimentation, scalability and long-term engineering quality.
• A product-first engineering mindset, with an understanding that technical decisions are in service of the products we provide to our customers.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Setting technical direction for the Kyber platform, making architectural decisions for the systems that enable rapid deployment of internal applications and product feature prototypes.
• Write and review code hands-on and with AI coding agents, establishing and demonstrating standards for quality, availability and system health across the platform.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Design to translate cross-organizational objectives into platform capabilities.
• Advance the capabilities for Product Managers, Designers, and other non-technical builders to build rich product feature prototypes that translate to features in our production applications.
• Mentor engineers and act as a force multiplier, leveling up the team through design reviews, technical guidance, and a collaborative, inclusive culture.

Skills

9+ years exp

Full-stack dev

Zero-to-one products

End-to-end ownership

Architectural design

Technical judgment

Product-first mindset

Communication skills

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the UI Tooling team to lead Kyber, our prototyping and rapid deployment platform. You will drive architecture, scale, and integration across internal projects and non-technical builders.

You will own strategy across rebuilding Kyber onto next-gen cloud platforms, evolving capabilities for product development, and integrating Kyber into our ecosystem to accelerate prototyping workflows. Remote eligible in the US.