Senior Software Engineer, Users Foundation

The Community You Will Join:

• At Airbnb, our mission is to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
• The Users Foundation team owns User Data at Airbnb, the identity and account information behind every guest and host interaction.
• Our systems sit at the center of the platform, so reliability, correctness, and scale are the job.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Design and build distributed systems that handle enormous scale with strict correctness and reliability requirements.
• Work closely with engineering teams across Airbnb to ship changes safely to infrastructure they depend on.
• Set technical direction, lead tradeoff discussions, and influence how foundational systems evolve.

A Typical Day:

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs that are core dependencies across the platform.
• Lead multi-engineer projects end-to-end, from problem definition through rollout and operations.
• Partner with engineering teams to plan and safely execute changes to shared infrastructure.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with owning production services end-to-end.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, including messaging/eventing, data consistency, and service reliability.
• Track record of leading ambiguous, multi-month projects and driving technical decisions across team boundaries.