Staff Backend Engineer

Role Description

The Host Serving and Access Team is building the best realtime and offline data and pricing architectures possible, pushing the boundary on what we can provide to our internal partners and Airbnb’s Hosts. You can help solve the problems, resolve the complexities, and empower the products that millions of people rely on every day.

As a Staff Engineer on the Guidance Serving team, you will drive the technical strategy and delivery of advanced online and offline serving systems, enabling seamless and reliable ML model predictions, and personalized user experiences. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data Science, and ML Engineering to architect scalable solutions with clear domain boundaries, advance data pipelines, and continuously enhance the performance, efficiency, and impact of our end-to-end architecture.

A Typical Day

• Architect and drive the technical strategy and architecture for our serving ecosystem, ensuring our APIs, services, and data pipelines not only work well now, but are evolving with the business’ needs.
• Lead the development and optimization of real-time serving systems to deliver low-latency, high-throughput APIs for model predictions and personalized recommendations, ensuring reliable and scalable performance in production environments.
• Collaborate with other product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new Host pricing functionality and surface model recommendations, insights and analytics.
• Contribute to the development of long-term workflow strategies, roadmaps and ML serving development within the Host Pricing organization.
• Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers to elevate the organization's technical maturity.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of engineering experience with a BS/MS or PhD in CS or similar.
• Proven track record of leading teams, setting technical strategy, and launching high-impact models.
• Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures.
• Experience influencing cross-functional partners and engineering teams.
• Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Strong problem-solving and production debugging abilities.

Requirements

• This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.
• You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.
• If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $212,000 — $265,000 USD.
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company Description

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.