Staff Software Engineer, Tax Platform

Details

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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.

Responsibilities

• Build microservices, APIs to drive platform integrations across web and mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build interfaces and systems that can evolve to meet critical business needs.
• Build platforms including infrastructure, applications, and tools; gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters, and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure.
• Work on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment; make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years of industry experience.
• Prior real-world experience and demonstrable knowledge in Java, Kotlin, Relational Databases, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AI development tools like Co-Pilot.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, and data science partners.
• Experience with profiling, performance tuning, resiliency patterns, and identifying bottlenecks in large-scale applications.
• Strong understanding of system reliability, including observability, incident management, and building fault-tolerant services.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, mentor others, and drive engineering excellence across teams.

Benefits

• Inclusive and supportive work environment promoting sustainable engineering practices and well-being.
• Career development opportunities including internal mobility, mentoring, and leadership development.
• Opportunity to work on launching and expanding protection products across global markets.
• Work on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout.
• Collaboration with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and various platform teams within Airbnb.
• This role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Location

• US - Remote Eligible, with occasional work at Airbnb offices or offsites as agreed with manager.
• Candidate must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Commitment

• Airbnb is committed to diversity, inclusion, and providing disability accommodations during the recruitment process.