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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Host Pricing & Settings

Airbnb · Remote - USA

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
81 days
Airbnb's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Airbnb's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Airbnb
high
168 stale, 16 reposted of 173 open
Hiring momentum
323 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Airbnb's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Airbnb.

About this role

In this role, you will be a senior technical contributor responsible for the architecture and strategy of the ML serving infrastructure within the Host Pricing & Settings team. You will lead the development of a unified serving stack and establish contracts between modeling and serving teams, ensuring efficient transitions from model development to production. Daily tasks include reviewing architecture, writing code, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with various teams to drive project milestones.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
5/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Airbnb as an employer.

What you need

  • 12+ years in backend or platform engineering
  • Substantial experience building production ML systems or data-intensive infrastructure
  • Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Scala, and/or Python
  • Deep understanding of ML systems design including feature stores and model versioning
  • Experience with high-scale batch and real-time data pipelines
  • Expertise with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications

Nice to have

  • Production experience with Chronon, Tecton, Feast, or equivalent
  • Experience with model schema management and multi-version support
  • Track record defining and enforcing technical contracts between teams
  • Measurable impact improving ML teams' evaluation speed

Worth weighing

  • Remote work eligibility is limited to states where Airbnb has a registered entity
  • No specific salary or benefits mentioned in the posting
  • The role requires hands-on coding despite being a senior position

Summarised from Airbnb's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Airbnb on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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