Staff Software Engineer, Booking

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

Booking is at the core of the Airbnb marketplace that enables the connection between our guests and hosts. The Booking team is a high-impact team focused on building the next generation of our booking system. We collaborate with Pricing, Payments, and Trust teams and cross-functional partners to improve the efficiency, reliability and ergonomics of the system. We seek to drive innovative solutions that will enable us to revolutionize the travel experience and advance Airbnb’s mission.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Booking Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and refinement of major subsystems that power Airbnb bookings. You will put your experience with distributed systems and business workflow systems at work, playing a pivotal role in transforming the booking ecosystem.  

A Typical Day: 

• Lead booking engineering projects to improve the end user experience, system reliability and performance.
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors.
• Write and review technical designs that solve large, open-ended foundational technical problems without clearly-known solutions
• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Bookings and organizations such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions
• Be an advocate for our customers by influencing cross-functional partners across Product & Design teams

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience
• Experience building Booking/Ordering or relevant systems
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy
• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams 
• Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers

Your Location:

Remote- USA

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. 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.