The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Set the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for Listings and Quality: backend, and bring the team and stakeholders along.
Partner with AI Platform, Trust, Infrastructure, and Product teams to shape: how Listings and Quality architecture fits with the rest of Airbnb, and set the platform contracts between them.
Design APIs, data models, and data provenance so the platform can safely: support AI-assisted features and agents.
Drive platformization, simplification, and self-service: generalize shared capabilities, consolidate duplicated systems, and let product teams build within guardrails.
Raise the bar on reliability and engineering practices, and reduce: operational load on systems in critical business paths.
Hands-on development, including design and code reviews.
What they're looking for
- Mentor, guide, and support the career growth of individual contributors.
- + years of relevant experience in the tech industry; 4+ years of experience: in an Architect or Staff Engineer role, with ownership responsibility over large-scale software systems.
- Strong product and platform judgment. You understand how backend architecture: choices shape product velocity, and you design for the needs of product teams, hosts, and AI clients.
- Track record of setting a multi-year technical vision for a core platform and: delivering it incrementally, such as consolidating services, finishing major migrations, or platformizing shared capabilities.
