Job Description

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. The Community You Will Join: The Host Pricing & Availability team builds the platform and tools that empower hosts to manage their business effectively. We help Airbnb hosts set competitive prices by providing market intelligence, comparable listing data, and demand signals. Additionally, we build advanced tools for seamless calendar management. As a critical component of Airbnb's business and a pillar of trust within our host community, we partner with the Search, Listings, Tax, and Payments teams to ensure accuracy and consistency across our pricing systems. The Difference You Will Make As a Staff Engineer on the Host Pricing and Availability team, you will drive the technical strategy and delivery of Airbnb's pricing product roadmap. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data Science to architect scalable solutions with clear domain boundaries, while continuously enhancing the performance, efficiency, and impact of our end-to-end architecture. A Typical Day Architect and lead the technical strategy for our pricing and availability backend systems, ensuring APIs, services, and data pipelines are robust today and evolve alongside business needs. Lead the development and optimization of Airbnb’s core pricing and availability products. Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new host pricing functionality and calendar management tools. Contribute to the long-term backend system architecture within the Host Pricing organization. Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers to elevate the organization's technical maturity. Your Expertise 9+ years of engineering experience with a BS/MS or PhD in CS or similar Proven track record of leading teams, setting technical strategy, and launching high-impact product features Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures. Experience influencing cross-functional partners and engineering teams. Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality. Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills. Strong problem-solving and production debugging abilities. 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.

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