Senior Software Engineer, i18n Infrastructure

The Internationalization Infrastructure team (i18n team) aims to foster global belonging and offer the best localization experience by providing reliable, efficient, scalable, and extensible globalization infrastructure and tooling for Airbnb code, content, and stakeholders. In Bytelevel Research ’s 2024 Globalization Report Card, Airbnb ranked #2 among the top 150 global companies, and #1 for six years in a row among all companies in the Travel & Hospitality sector. Millions of users across the world engage with the Airbnb app in their preferred languages every day. As an engineer on the i18n Infrastructure team, you will be critical to the continued success and broad appeal of Airbnb. In this role, you will have an opportunity to: Build intuitive workflows and tools to serve the needs of our stakeholders, business partners, and end users Enable the internationalization infrastructure to scale cost efficiently Work cross-functionally with partners in Globalization, Data Science, user facing product teams, vertical platform teams, and external vendors Build scalable systems supporting high scale real-time translation requests and efficient and cost-effective retrieval of translated content Be part of an impactful infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices on internationalization