Software Engineer, Booking Orchestration

Airbnb

6h • Remote

About The Position

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
The Community You Will Join:
Booking is at the core of the Airbnb marketplace that enables the connection between our guests and hosts. The Orchestration team is a high-impact team focused on building the next generation of our order orchestration system. We collaborate with Bookings, Payments, and Trust teams and cross-functional partners to improve the efficiency, reliability and ergonomics of the system. We seek to drive innovative solutions which will enable us to revolutionize the travel experience and advance Airbnb’s mission.
The Difference You Will Make:
As a Booking Orchestration Engineer, you will design, build, and operate features and subsystems within our team’s domain that improve booking reliability, performance, and user experience. You’ll contribute to technical direction in your area, partner across adjacent teams when needed, and help raise the bar for engineering quality within the team.
A Typical Day:
Design, implement, launch, and operate services that improve booking reliability, scalability, and performance.
Write clear technical designs for projects of moderate-to-high complexity, balancing functional requirements and non-functional qualities (resilience, testability, observability).
Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners in Bookings, Payments, and Trust to clarify requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure robust integrations.
Proactively grow knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving order orchestration systems
Help define and improve coding standards, development processes, operational runbooks, and best practices.

Requirements

• BS or MS in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 2-4+ years of relevant engineering hands-on work experience
• Experience building Booking/Ordering or relevant systems
• Strong coding abilities and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Familiarity with patterns, libraries and frameworks for building and testing services, and service-to-service communication
• Comfort operating services in production (on-call participation, reliability guardrails, incident learnings).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within and across teams at Airbnb

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, launch, and operate services that improve booking reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Write clear technical designs for projects of moderate-to-high complexity, balancing functional requirements and non-functional qualities (resilience, testability, observability).
• Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners in Bookings, Payments, and Trust to clarify requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure robust integrations.
• Proactively grow knowledge of leading edge practices and trends involving order orchestration systems
• Help define and improve coding standards, development processes, operational runbooks, and best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level