Staff Software Engineer, Booking Orchestration

Details

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:

Booking is at the core of the Airbnb marketplace that enables the connection between our guests and hosts. The Orchestration team is a high-impact team focused on building the next generation of our order orchestration system. We collaborate with Bookings, Payments, and Trust teams and cross-functional partners to improve the efficiency, reliability and ergonomics of the system. We seek to drive innovative solutions which will enable us to revolutionize the travel experience and advance Airbnb’s mission.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Booking Orchestration Staff Engineer, you will lead the development and refinement of major subsystems that power Airbnb bookings. You will put your experience with distributed systems and business workflow systems at work, playing a pivotal role in transforming the booking ecosystem.

A Typical Day:

• Lead booking engineering projects to improve booking experience, system scalability, and performance.
• Mentor, guide, advocate and support the career growth of individual contributors.
• Write and review technical designs that solve large, open-ended foundational technical problems without clearly-known solutions.
• Ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across Bookings and organizations such as Payments and Trust to align on long-term technical solutions.
• Proactively grows knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving workflow orchestration systems.
• Self-driven and ability to be accountable for key deliverables in our booking system.

Your Expertise:

• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience.
• Experience building Booking/Ordering or relevant systems.
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications.
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture (SOA).
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy.
• Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams.
• Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers.