[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer, Host Serving and Access

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global hospitality company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to drive technical strategy and delivery of advanced serving systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance performance and scalability of services that support hosts' needs.


Responsibilities

  • 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

Skills

  • 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

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

Company Overview

  • Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.airbnb.com.

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  • Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 59 in 2026, 234 in 2025, 176 in 2024, 160 in 2023, 270 in 2022, 250 in 2021, 274 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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