Airbnb is looking to improve its customer support systems and provide a world-class experience for its guests and hosts.
Requirements
- Experience with data systems, working with ML engineering, and leveraging GenAI to build product features or streamline development processes.
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy and mentoring engineers.
- Passionate about efficiency, availability, technical quality and system quality.
- Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.
- Experience with backend engineering, systems architecture, data, and GenAI
- Experience with software engineering, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Experience with driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Provide thought leadership, define strategy, influence cross functional collaboration and drive architectural decisions.
- Lead multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
- Architect and implement complex features, focusing on data-driven decision making and performance optimizations.
- Leverage knowledge of data and GenAI to work with ML engineering, help drive product direction, and implement cutting edge product features.
- Lead efforts with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations
- Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
Other
- 11+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- US - Remote Eligible, must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
