Senior Software Engineer – Guest & Host

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and enhance backend systems that prioritize user identity and privacy.

• Create backend services and APIs that implement identity and privacy regulations across various product interfaces.

• Assist in large-scale transitions from outdated identity models.

• Construct tools that ensure migrations can be executed safely on a broad scale.

• Establish and refine authorization logic for data access that is context-specific.

• Collaborate with teams focused on messaging, trips, profiles, and related systems.

• Engage in design and code evaluations.

• Troubleshoot and resolve production challenges through methodical root-cause analysis.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of professional experience in backend software engineering.

• Strong understanding of service-oriented architecture, API design, and data modeling principles.

• Expertise in Java and/or Kotlin programming languages.

• Experience working in a microservices environment, including RPC frameworks, service IDLs, and dependency injection.

• Proven ability to design systems with a focus on correctness and authorization as primary considerations.

• Demonstrated history of implementing migrations or infrastructure modifications utilized by other teams.

• Attention to maintaining backward compatibility and ensuring rollout safety.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Capability to clearly document issues, root causes, and solution alternatives.

• Proficient in transforming intricate and evolving privacy or identity requirements into concrete technical designs.

• Must reside in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for occasional work at an Airbnb office or participation in offsite events, as agreed upon with your manager.

• Reasonable accommodations provided throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.