Senior Software Engineer, Messaging Platform

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

The Messaging Platform is at the heart of Airbnb, facilitating essential connections between guests, hosts,customer support and more. It's more than just a feature; it's the foundation of the Airbnb experience, enabling seamless check-ins, instant support communication, and sharing memorable experiences. Our team also contributed to the development of Airbnb’s Translation Engine, enhancing global communication across different languages.

The Difference You Will Make:

We're Looking For a Senior Backend Engineer to take the lead in evolving our Messaging Platform. This role is pivotal in building and innovating the backbone that supports all Airbnb messaging, ensuring scalability, performance, and cutting-edge functionality.

A Typical Day:

• Build and Innovate: Develop and own significant engineering projects to enhance the Messaging Platform's scalability, performance and capabilities.
• Collaborate: Work closely with product and design to support new releases and with client engineers to design impactful features.
• Lead Technological Advancement: Drive the evolution of Airbnb's messaging architecture.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry engineering experience
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Proven background in developing and maintaining large-scale backend distributed systems using Java or Kotlin.
• Experience with high-traffic platform backend services is a significant plus.
• Strong architectural knowledge, comfort working across multiple repositories, services, and environments.
• A pragmatic, data-driven problem solver with a passion for continuous learning and collaboration. Ability to foster an inclusive team environment and work effectively in a remote setting.

Your Location:

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. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.