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
Deliver major projects end to end. Take end-to-end accountability across the: software development lifecycle on projects that span multiple workstreams — breaking the work down, building the plan, and leading a small engineering pod where the project calls for it.
Partner with content teams. Map and improve authoring workflows alongside: content, product, and engineering partners; translate them into technical requirements; and deliver the capabilities that follow, including reporting, product integrations, and AI-assisted authoring and editing features.
Own the authoring platform. Share the technical ownership of Contentstack,: our enterprise headless CMS, with our engineering team — extending it with custom UI extensions and authoring apps in React that follow Airbnb’s Design Language System, building the integrations that bring structured taxonomy and knowledge graph capabilities to our support and knowledge surfaces, and improving content organization, security, and discoverability through taxonomies, controlled vocabularies, and metadata standards.
Design for the system “-ilities.” Design systems that satisfy both functional: requirements and the -ilities — reliability, security, maintainability, observability. Identify and design for potential failure modes, participate actively in incident response, and implement corrective actions that reach beyond the immediate fix.
Raise the technical bar. Identify and deprecate or improve low-quality code,: services, and frameworks, and plan quality improvements into the team’s roadmap rather than around it. Give constructive input in technical design and code review that helps shape the team’s direction.
Write the thinking down. Document technical solutions clearly, surfacing the: benefits, risks, and tradeoffs you considered — then seek out and incorporate peer review and feedback on your designs. Analyze data, form hypotheses, experiment, learn, and iterate to improve Airbnb’s content authoring and delivery experience.
What they're looking for
- Grow the people around you. Coach and mentor engineers inside and outside the: team, give timely and actionable feedback, help onboard and integrate new team members, and contribute to interviewing and to Airbnb’s broader technical community.
- Work in an agent-assisted development loop. Direct AI agents to explore: unfamiliar systems, prototype solutions, generate and review code, and validate changes — while staying accountable for correctness and quality
- + years designing and implementing complex systems end to end in integrated enterprise environments
- Proven experience building and maintaining custom author-facing tools,: workflows, automations, and integrations in an enterprise headless CMS (Contentstack preferred)
