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Staff Backend Engineer, Host Pricing & Availability

Airbnb
$212,000 - $265,000Remote

About The Position

The Host Pricing & Availability team builds the platform and tools that empower hosts to manage their business effectively. We help Airbnb hosts set competitive prices by providing market intelligence, comparable listing data, and demand signals. Additionally, we build advanced tools for seamless calendar management. As a critical component of Airbnb's business and a pillar of trust within our host community, we partner with the Search, Listings, Tax, and Payments teams to ensure accuracy and consistency across our pricing systems. As a Staff Engineer on the Host Pricing and Availability team, you will drive the technical strategy and delivery of Airbnb's pricing product roadmap. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data Science to architect scalable solutions with clear domain boundaries, while continuously enhancing the performance, efficiency, and impact of our end-to-end architecture.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of engineering experience with a BS/MS or PhD in CS or similar
  • Proven track record of leading teams, setting technical strategy, and launching high-impact product features
  • Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures.
  • Experience influencing cross-functional partners and engineering teams.
  • Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
  • Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and production debugging abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and lead the technical strategy for our pricing and availability backend systems, ensuring APIs, services, and data pipelines are robust today and evolve alongside business needs.
  • Lead the development and optimization of Airbnb’s core pricing and availability products.
  • Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new host pricing functionality and calendar management tools.
  • Contribute to the long-term backend system architecture within the Host Pricing organization.
  • Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers to elevate the organization's technical maturity.

Benefits

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits

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