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
Design and evolve the core services and data models that track account state,: eligibility, and entitlements across millions of accounts
Partner with product and design to translate new product concepts into scalable, extensible technical designs
Collaborate with Payments and Wallet engineering to ensure credits,: discounts, and host-funded programs settle correctly end-to-end
Set technical direction and lead design reviews across a growing team,: mentoring engineers and raising the bar on system design
Drive cross-team architecture decisions with Identity & Privacy and Profile &: Community teams to keep account state consistent with Airbnb's broader Passport model
Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, and data-integrity risks before they affect guests or hosts
What they're looking for
- + years of experience designing and scaling complex, distributed backend: systems, with a proven track record of technical leadership in high-growth environments
- A track record as a technical leader who has set architecture direction for a: team or domain — not only delivered individual features
- Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including data: consistency, caching, service decomposition, and API design at scale
- Experience building or operating systems involving financial transactions,: entitlements, or other stateful account data is strongly preferred
