Senior Staff Software Engineer, Guest & Host

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 that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is powered by our Guests & Hosts. Our teams work on everything from driving improvements for the end-to-end Host and Guest experience to launching new product verticals from the ground up. Our job is to build world-class, comprehensive platforms and features to create high quality experiences for our outstanding guest and host communities.

Within our Guest & Host organization is the Communication and Connectivity team. The communication branch owns the tools used daily by millions of guests and hosts, including Messaging (2nd most used surface within Airbnb), push notifications, and other deep integrations with key operating system features. The connectivity branch is responsible to connect hosts together through various ways, it also built a platform to connect 3rd party partners from various domains with Airbnb. The communication and connectivity team has engineers cover multiple disciplines including web engineers, native engineers, backend engineers, data engineers, and machine learning engineers. The role posted here will focus on general backend architecture and application of AI technologies.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a senior technical individual contributor, you will partner closely with our senior leaders across the broader technical organization. Although you will be at one of our highest levels of seniority, all individual contributors at Airbnb are Software Engineers which means we expect you to be hands on and contribute code.

A Typical Day:

• Working closely with cross functional teams including design, product marketing, prototyping and others to envision a unique, delightful, extensible guest-host communication experience.
• Envision and build a scalable foundation for reaching out hosts in need through notifications
• Exploring ways to uplift our partner integration platform leveraging the advanced AI technology
• Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
• Performing design and code reviews and advise/mentor other engineers at Airbnb

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Exp