Senior Fullstack Engineer

The Community You Will Join:

The Cities team serves guests, hosts and regulators to ensure successful global compliance with local regulations. Our mission is to scalably sustain nights booked and growth rate in tens of thousands of cities to meet STR regulation around the globe. 

The products we own:

• The tier 0/1 flows end-to-end host experience on regulation registration flow, as well as the downstream enforcement mechanisms to help Airbnb comply with regulations. 

• The government-facing product - the City Portal –  from end to end, establishing relationships with governments around the world.

• The foundational quality services which powers LVF, requirement services and nightcap platform which feeds data to critical pages such as PDP and Host Calendar etc. 

The working environment we have: 

• Inclusive and supportive work environment. We promote sustainable engineering practices, well-being / healthy team dynamics, and value differences.

• Career development-- internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities.

• Work on launching and expanding our products across global markets. Seize greenfield opportunities on a fast-growing team.

The Difference You Will Make

This is a high impact opportunity for a software engineer to help develop one of the most critical domains in Airbnb. As a senior member of the team, You will build scalable and flexible systems that can model today’s regulations and easily adapt to future changes in this rapidly evolving space. The system will integrate across guest and host facing systems, as well as our government portal and internal tools. In addition, you will actively engage industry and governmental partners to drive technology strategy to scale compliance including establishment of technology standards. 

A Typical Day:

• Join a talented group of engineers, work with smart teammates closely on high impact technical initiatives to keep Airbnb business scalable, performant and reliable.

• 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

• Help set up and lead working group sessions, collaborate on current and upcoming projects including proposal and design doc reviews, roadmap planning, etc.

• Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools, and gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure

• Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution

Your Location:

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. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. . This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.