[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, UI Tooling @Airbnb

Role Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the UI Tooling team, you will lead our prototyping and rapid deployment platform, Kyber. You will drive implementation, maintenance, and scaling of a system that supports thousands of internal projects and users and enables non-technical builders to express ideas across all of our product surface areas.

You will own the strategy and execution across 3 key areas:

• Rebuild Kyber onto our next-generation cloud platforms.
• Evolve Kyber capabilities to support product development process.
• Integrate Kyber into our ecosystem supporting prototyping workflows.

A typical day includes:

• Setting technical direction for the Kyber platform, making architectural decisions for the systems that enable rapid deployment of internal applications and product feature prototypes.
• Writing and reviewing code hands-on and with AI coding agents, establishing and demonstrating standards for quality, availability and system health across the platform.
• Partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Design to translate cross-organizational objectives into platform capabilities.
• Advancing the capabilities for Product Managers, Designers, and other non-technical builders to build rich product feature prototypes that translate to features in our production applications.
• Mentoring engineers and acting as a force multiplier, leveling up the team through design reviews, technical guidance, and a collaborative, inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of industry experience, ideally within fast-paced environments, with a track record of delivering large-scale service oriented systems.
• Broad full-stack engineering capability, with the confidence to work across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs and system architecture as technical challenges require.
• Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one, contributing to product definition, technical architecture, development and launch.
• End-to-end product ownership, with experience iterating on launched products, responding to customer feedback and improving adoption, usability and business outcomes.
• Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, well-designed APIs, data pipelines, efficient algorithms and reliable integrations.
• Sound technical judgment, with the ability to balance speed of delivery, experimentation, scalability and long-term engineering quality.
• A product-first engineering mindset, with an understanding that technical decisions are in service of the products we provide to our customers.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.

Requirements

• 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.
• You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Benefits

• Base pay range: $212,000 — $265,000 USD.
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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].

Equal Employment Opportunity: Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.