Staff Software Engineer, UI Tooling

Airbnb

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$212,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Above market

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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 47 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $200,000–$250,000 across 45 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, UI Tooling

As a Staff Software Engineer on the UI Tooling team, you will lead the prototyping and rapid deployment platform known as Kyber. You will drive the implementation, maintenance, and scaling of this system to support thousands of internal projects, enabling non-technical builders to express ideas across various product surface areas. Your daily responsibilities include setting technical direction, making architectural decisions for rapid deployment, and writing code alongside AI coding agents. You will partner with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Design teams to translate cross-organizational objectives into platform capabilities. The role requires broad full-stack engineering capability, experience with high-scale distributed services, APIs, data pipelines, and efficient algorithms. You will solve the technical problem of connecting the Design Language System to day-to-day workflows for designers, engineers, and product managers.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 352 postings across 52 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the implementation, maintenance, and scaling of the Kyber prototyping and rapid deployment platform.
  • Rebuild the Kyber platform onto next-generation cloud platforms.
  • Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for systems enabling rapid deployment of internal applications.
  • Write and review code hands-on to establish standards for quality, availability, and system health.
  • Translate cross-organizational objectives into platform capabilities by partnering with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Design teams.
  • Enable non-technical builders to create rich product feature prototypes that translate to production applications.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance through design reviews and collaborative leadership.

What we're looking for

  • 9+ years of industry experience delivering large-scale service-oriented systems.
  • Broad full-stack engineering capability across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs, and system architecture.
  • Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one.
  • End-to-end product ownership experience iterating on launched products and improving business outcomes.
  • Strong architectural design skills for high-scale distributed services, APIs, data pipelines, and algorithms.
  • Sound technical judgment to balance delivery speed, experimentation, scalability, and engineering quality.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to drive initiatives across teams and leadership.
  • Product-first engineering mindset to ensure technical decisions serve customer products.

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