Staff Software Engineer, UI Tooling

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 UI Foundation team has a deep history at Airbnb, responsible for the design system, accessibility, motion, and the tooling that connects how Airbnb designs and builds products. Within UI Foundation, the UI Tooling team is the connective tissue between Airbnb's Design Language System and the day-to-day workflows of hundreds of designers, engineers, and product managers across the company.

UI Tooling owns the platforms, integrations, and tooling that power how designers, engineers, and product managers work - spanning design tooling, UI engineering workflow tooling, collaboration platforms, and increasingly, AI-powered workflows across all three. As AI enablement for designers and engineers accelerates, this team sits at the center of some of Airbnb's most strategic infrastructure investments.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the UI Tooling team, you will lead our prototyping and rapid deployment platform, Kyber. You will drive implementation, maintenance, and scaling of a system that supports thousands of internal projects and users and enables non-technical builders to express ideas across all of our product surface areas.

You will own the strategy and execution across 3 key areas:

• Rebuild Kyber onto our next-generation cloud platforms.
• Evolve Kyber capabilities to support product development process.
• Integrate Kyber into our ecosystem supporting prototyping workflows.

A Typical Day: 

• Setting technical direction for the Kyber platform, making architectural decisions for the systems that enable rapid deployment of internal applications and product feature prototypes.
• Write and review code hands-on and with AI coding agents, establishing and demonstrating standards for quality, availability and system health across the platform.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Design to translate cross-organizational objectives into platform capabilities.
• Advance the capabilities for Product Managers, Designers, and other non-technical builders to build rich product feature prototypes that translate to features in our production applications.
• Mentor engineers and act as a force multiplier, leveling up the team through design reviews, technical guidance, and a collaborative, inclusive culture.

Your Expertise:

• 9+ years of industry experience, ideally within fast-paced environments, with a track record of delivering large-scale service oriented systems.
• Broad full-stack engineering capability, with the confidence to work across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs and system architecture as technical challenges require.
• Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one, contributing to product definition, technical architecture, development and launch.
• End-to-end product ownership, with experience iterating on launched products, responding to customer feedback and improving adoption, usability and business outcomes.
• Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, well-designed APIs, data pipelines, efficient algorithms and reliable integrations.
• Sound technical judgment, with the ability to balance speed of delivery, experimentation, scalability and long-term engineering quality.
• A product-first engineering mindset, with an understanding that technical decisions are in service of the products we provide to our customers.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.

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: [email protected]. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

Pay Range

$212,000—$265,000 USD

Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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