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Join Airbnb as a Senior Fullstack Engineer to build high-scale translation workflows and improve global experiences. Collaborate across teams to enhance infrastructure and leverage AI technologies.
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 a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit, and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st-century company.
- Design and build high-scale translation workflows, APIs, UIs, and libraries that provide consistent paved paths across Airbnb.
- Simplify legacy systems through safe migrations while improving reliability, observability, latency, security, and cost efficiency.
- Prototype applications of machine learning and large language models, then turn validated ideas into durable platform capabilities.
- Partner across Globalization, Data Science and ML, product and platform teams, and external vendors to solve ambiguous customer problems.
- Measure success through outcomes such as quality, cost, latency, adoption, developer productivity, and operational load.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS or Master's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong programming skills for hands-on individual-contributor work in Java, Kotlin, C++, or a comparable backend language.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, APIs, storage and caching systems, event-driven processing, or service-oriented architectures at scale.
- Experience evolving production systems through incremental migrations, testing, observability, and operational ownership.
- Proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript and experience with React or comparable modern web technologies sufficient to own internal workflows end to end.
- Experience collaborating across organizational boundaries and communicating technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering and non-engineering partners.
- A data-informed approach to system quality, reliability, efficiency, and customer experience.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools and agents to accelerate discovery, prototyping, implementation, testing, and documentation, with sound judgment about quality and verification.
- Interest in building AI-enabled platform capabilities is valued; prior ML specialization is not required.
- Passion for globalization, inclusive user experiences, and building infrastructure that helps teams serve a worldwide community.
- Base pay range: $196,000 — $230,000 USD.
- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
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