Senior Software Engineer Guest & Host

Airbnb

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer Guest & Host

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Guest & Host team, you will build and scale backend systems that manage the core identity and privacy layer for users. You will be responsible for designing and building services and APIs that enforce consistent privacy rules across various product surfaces, including messaging and trip sharing. Your daily work involves developing authorization logic for context-scoped data access, creating migration tooling to move away from legacy patterns, and performing root-cause analysis on production issues. The role requires proficiency in Java or Kotlin within a microservices environment involving RPC frameworks and service IDLs. You will solve complex problems regarding relationship-scoped identity and data modeling to ensure that privacy primitives are robust and usable by other internal teams while maintaining high standards for correctness and backward compatibility during large-scale infrastructure changes.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build backend services and APIs that enforce identity and privacy rules across product surfaces.
  • Develop migration tools to move service and client code away from legacy identity patterns safely at scale.
  • Define and evolve authorization logic for context-scoped data access based on specific user relationships.
  • Create robust infrastructure and data models that ensure high correctness in security-critical systems.
  • Partner with internal product teams to provide usable and secure privacy primitives.
  • Perform root-cause analysis to debug and resolve complex production issues.
  • Conduct design and code reviews to ensure high standards of correctness for critical codebase components.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
  • Strong fundamentals in service-oriented architecture, API design, and data modeling.
  • Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin.
  • Experience working within a microservices environment using RPC frameworks, service IDLs, and dependency injection.
  • Experience designing systems with correctness and authorization as first-class concerns.
  • Track record of shipping migrations or infrastructure changes that other teams depend on while ensuring backward compatibility.
  • Strong written communication skills to document problems, root causes, and trade-offs.
  • Ability to translate complex, evolving requirements into concrete technical designs.

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