Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform

Airbnb

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $212,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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This role pays more than 71% of similar roles. Most pay $202,800–$241,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $222k for comparable roles.

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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.

Airbnb currently has 49 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $206,000–$250,000 across 46 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform

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The Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform joins the iOS Platform team to provide a best-in-class experience for engineers by delivering high-velocity, high-quality solutions. You will drive roadmap projects to improve AI agents' effectiveness across the software development workflow, identifying inefficiencies to enhance execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality. Day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with cross-functional partners to improve developer productivity and evolving core libraries, frameworks, and build systems. You will utilize a technical stack including Swift, SwiftUI, Swift Macros, Swift Testing, and structured concurrency. The role requires expertise in building reliable developer tooling using Go and Ruby, as well as leveraging Agentic AI for large-scale migrations. You will work within medium- to large-scale codebases to maintain the underlying infrastructure for the iOS application.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 350 postings across 49 companies.

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Skills

Swift Go Ruby SwiftUI Agentic AI Bazel CI Testing Swift Macros Structured Concurrency Build Systems iOS Frameworks Tooling

What you'll do

Drive projects to improve AI agents' effectiveness across the software development workflow.
Provide tools that enable engineers to complete work efficiently and reliably with high-quality results.
Improve existing frameworks and developer tooling to meet ambitious platform goals.
Build and maintain reliable developer tooling using Go and Ruby.
Leverage Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large-scale migrations.
Identify and address inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time and token efficiency.
Maintain and evolve core libraries and frameworks that underlie the Airbnb iOS app.

What we're looking for

9+ years of industry experience in software development.
Experience building reliable developer tooling in Go.
Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large scale migrations.
Experience identifying and addressing inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
Experience working in medium- to large-scale codebases.
iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.
Experience designing and developing build systems (e.g. Bazel) (preferred).