Staff Software Engineer, Cities

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:

The Cities team is a mission-driven organization chartered with ensuring Airbnb remains compliant with housing regulations, minimizing regulatory friction for Hosts and Guests, and building trust with local governments to promote fair regulations around the world. The team is highly collaborative and works very closely with policy, operations, product, design and data science. 

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Engineering on the Cities team, you will be responsible for the overall engineering architecture of our regulatory systems. You will build scalable and flexible systems that can model today’s regulations and easily adapt to future changes in this rapidly evolving space. The system will integrate across guest and host facing systems, as well as our government portal and internal tools. In addition, you will actively engage industry and governmental partners to drive technology strategy to scale compliance including establishment of technology standards. 

A Typical Day: 

• As a Staff Software on Cities your role will include:
• Architect and build our next-gen regulatory services
• Engage with our policy and operations partners to launch the next major regulation 
• Work closely with product teams on improving our guest and host regulatory experience
• A coach, mentor and leader across the Cities team to ensure the highest standards for our code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• 9+ years of industry experience
• Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/C++/etc.)
• Experience in architectural patterns of a high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms
• Experience working with industry and government partners in establishing technology standards
• Experiences working collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, policy, operations and data science partners

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to …