[Hiring] Early Career Software Engineer, Quality Engineering @Airbnb

Role Description

The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems by building and using tools leveraging AI. We own and continuously improve product test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, and frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase, identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable, fault-tolerant systems.

As a Software Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by:

• Building and maintaining automation coverage for features and releases.
• Working directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools.
• Writing and testing product code.
• Participating in design reviews to architect testable systems.
• Guiding designs and code to enhance modularity and testability.

You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. You excel at:

• Working through ambiguity.
• Concept validation.
• Implementing best-in-class solutions.

A typical day includes:

• Building, maintaining, and effectively utilizing automated tests.
• Collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases.
• Actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.
• Leveraging AI and tooling to implement the test automation strategy.
• Contributing to improving existing automation frameworks.
• Collaborating with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrating excellent troubleshooting abilities.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience in software engineering and testing.
• Demonstrable knowledge in at least one language used for web development (e.g., TypeScript, JavaScript) and comfort working in a backend language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go).
• Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience with web automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress).
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git).
• Familiarity with quality signals such as test coverage, flaky test rate, and suite execution time.
• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams.
• Curiosity about applying AI/LLMs to testing and developer productivity.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent.

Requirements

• Comfort working through ambiguous problems.
• Comfortable collaborating in English.

Benefits

• Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible.
• We strive to provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.