or apply directly on Airbnb's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 23 days Airbnb's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Airbnb's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Airbnb
- high 87 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
- 2026-09-17
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
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Service Tools team at Airbnb, you will be responsible for enhancing the developer lifecycle for backend developers, focusing on areas such as AI-assisted development, build systems, and testing infrastructure. Your role involves setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve developer productivity and experience. You will also engage in large-scale modernization efforts and represent the team's work externally through various channels.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- 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
- 9+ years of industry experience with a Bachelor's/Master's degree, or 6+ years with a PhD
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in one or more back-end server languages (Java/Kotlin/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.)
- Experienced in architectural patterns of high-scale distributed products/services, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams and functions outside your own reporting line
- Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners
Nice to have
- Fluency with the modern AI-assisted development stack — coding agents, skills and context engineering, tool integrations, and evaluating agent quality rigorously rather than anecdotally
- A measurement instinct: you reach for data to size a problem and to prove the fix worked, and you are skeptical of metrics that flatter the team
- Want to tackle projects with large, open-ended, ambiguous scope, and are comfortable deciding what should exist rather than waiting for a spec
- Raise the level of the engineers around you through code reviews, architecture discussions, mentorship, and clear writing
- Treat operational excellence and technical debt as first-class roadmap items rather than afterthoughts
What you get
- Base pay range of $212,000 — $265,000 USD
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work policy details beyond eligibility
- The role involves significant influence and collaboration across teams, which may require strong interpersonal skills
- The position has a broad scope with open-ended projects, which may lead to ambiguity in responsibilities
Summarised from Airbnb's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Airbnb on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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