Airbnb

Data Engineer

• Provide technical leadership across data engineering and analytics engineering work spanning cloud cost, traffic and bots, and infrastructure intelligence
• Define and own the multi-year data strategy and architecture for Airbnb's foundational data assets
• Build cross-organizational consensus to fund and execute the data strategy
• Own measurement of AI unit economics, training and serving costs, GPU fleet utilization, and developer AI tooling adoption
• Design and build datasets integrating cost, utilization, performance, and reliability signals across infrastructure fleets
• Build and maintain Airflow-orchestrated pipelines ingesting telemetry, logs, and billing data
• Develop dimensional models and Minerva definitions used across Airbnb
• Stay hands-on in pipelines and models to identify design and implementation issues
• Influence and coach distributed Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers through design and code review
• Build frameworks and automated checks adopted by other teams
• Resolve conflicting requirements across Infrastructure, Finance, Data Science, and Product Engineering
• Eliminate duplication and data fragmentation and drive deprecation of replaced models
• Participate in the on-call rotation for owned datasets

Senior Staff Data Engineer, Foundational Data

Recruitment

• Manage and drive full-cycle recruitment, including sourcing, screening, interviews, feedback, and offers
• Recruit entry-level through senior candidates across sales, business development, partnerships, commercial/revenue-generating, and corporate functions
• Build pipelines for multiple requisitions across functions and geographies
• Establish a strong and diverse top of funnel
• Partner with talent partners, hiring managers, talent operations, and finance to develop hiring strategies and plans
• Influence business leaders and educate hiring managers on recruiting processes, interview best practices, and decision-making
• Provide high-touch “white glove” candidate experiences
• Track candidate data accurately and use recruiting systems correctly for business reporting
• Develop creative approaches to find and engage talent in a high-velocity requisition environment
• Represent Airbnb with integrity and professionalism while communicating its mission authentically

Recruiter, Sales & G&A

Full-stack Engineer

• Develop a roadmap with a longer-term vision for Reliability and serve as a strategic thought partner
• Design, implement, and influence company-wide SRE architecture, innovation, engineering, and standards
• Create scalable incident management processes and reduce operational toil
• Foster the SRE/Reliability model within the engineering culture
• Optimize infrastructure and platforms for high availability and performance
• Develop Production Readiness standards and automate/configure systems as code
• Predict future failures and proactively mitigate them
• Implement reliable design patterns such as circuit breakers and graceful degradation
• Build a culture of proactive reliability and improve tooling leverage
• Partner with engineering leaders and product engineering teams on large-scale distributed systems
• Learn from incidents through blameless postmortems
• Mentor and lead Site Reliability Engineers through servant leadership, mentorship, advocacy, and allyship

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

Systems Engineer

• Own defined IT self-service features and delivery workstreams through design, testing, launch, and ongoing improvement
• Translate IT Support strategy and priorities into functional and technical requirements, user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans
• Work with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders on requirements, solution design, delivery timelines, testing, and change readiness
• Analyze self-service use cases and recommend improvements based on employee impact, operational needs, data, and technical considerations
• Evaluate AI and conversational self-service experiences for accuracy, failure patterns, and escalation or handoff to human support
• Define and monitor success measures using product data, employee feedback, and operational signals
• Develop understanding of integrations, APIs, data flows, identity and permissions, automation, platform dependencies, security, and privacy considerations
• Partner with the Strategic Knowledge program to leverage the knowledge ecosystem
• Identify patterns in unsuccessful or incomplete self-service interactions and recommend improvements
• Create functional and technical artifacts, including requirements, solution designs, process flows, test plans, and decision documentation
• Build relationships across technical and non-technical partners, manage expectations, surface risks, and collaborate across the global IT Support organization
• Support Airbnb’s IT Support organization in improving employee technology assistance through data, AI, automation, self-service, and human support

Business Systems Engineer – Tech Foundations

• Co-develop prototypes with Data Scientists by discussing proposed data models, identifying open questions, planning effective ways to answer them, and showcasing results to stakeholders
• Choose implementation approaches balancing speed and realism so prototypes provide sufficiently confident answers quickly
• Build APIs providing backend data for internal and other prototypes
• Guide data scientists in building prototypes that address open questions and demonstrate proposed solutions
• Create prototypes enabling differentiating, industry-leading product enhancements and applying advanced and emerging technologies

Senior Web Software Engineer, Data Science Prototyping

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Partner with senior leaders across Homes and Marketing to grow high-quality host supply
• Become the subject matter expert on how host leads are sourced, priced, and converted
• Develop a point of view on which channels and tactics warrant further investment
• Translate funnel performance, vendor economics, and marketing efficiency into business implications and recommendations
• Own recommendations for senior leadership, not just the analysis
• Own forecasting, goal setting, and executive reporting for lead generation
• Build scalable frameworks connecting lead volume and quality to activation and revenue
• Analyze stage-by-stage conversion and vendor productivity to identify lead loss, causes, and the value of fixing it
• Optimize sales operations across in-house and vendor channels, including capacity planning, routing and prioritization logic, incentive structures, and cost-per-activation economics
• Assess brand and search marketing efficiency relative to priority supply markets and recommend investment reallocations
• Synthesize complex analysis into clear recommendations and influence cross-functional stakeholders toward alignment on high-impact investment decisions

Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics

Manager

• Own product areas and end-to-end workflows that determine developer productivity
• Understand developer journeys, identify breakdowns, and drive fixes across organizational boundaries
• Define developer productivity at Airbnb and establish metrics, instrumentation, and qualitative research
• Shape product roadmaps with business stakeholders, product marketing, and technical program managers
• Create and own Product Requirements Documents and Business Requirements Documents
• Partner with engineers, designers, data scientists, and field-operations teams to scale solutions
• Establish product vision and northstar for the area
• Map and improve developer workflows across infrastructure, reliability engineering, and developer experience
• Partner with Engineering, Product, TPM, and Data Science to define success criteria and measurable objectives and key results
• Develop product roadmaps and align prioritization and timelines with business goals
• Influence teams without direct ownership to prioritize developer productivity work
• Understand Airbnb engineering workflows and technical architecture
• Execute efficiently to ship products and deliver business and user impact
• Lead cross-functional groups and act as the system voice
• Communicate concisely and influence outcomes at all organizational levels

Lead Platform Manager, Tech Foundations

Operations

• Lead execution of defined-scope technical programs
• Create realistic project plans based on direction, constraints, milestones, and deliverables
• Break work into trackable pieces and monitor progress using input and output metrics
• Align project teams and hold contributors accountable for deliverables and milestones
• Identify, track, manage, and mitigate project risks through resolution
• Communicate project vision and success criteria to teams and stakeholders
• Re-evaluate strategy and escalate decisions carrying significant business risk
• Surface technical gaps and collaborate with engineers using sound technical principles
• Own technical programs spanning multiple engineering, product, and operations teams over several quarters
• Participate in cultural and functional excellence activities, mentorship, diversity and inclusion programming, and hackathons

Tech Ops Fellow

• Build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure systems underpinning Airbnb's Zero Trust ecosystem
• Execute critical identity and endpoint security platforms
• Work with open source products to build the next-generation client platform for Airbnb corporate endpoints
• Build and support the Zero Trust backend suite, including security services, network paths, and user and device signaling
• Support executive-level Airbnb staff with endpoint and identity solutions
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to optimize endpoints and identity flows for Airbnb employees and partners
• Design new features and evolve platforms with security engineering teams
• Contribute to the safety and trust of the Airbnb community

Senior Software Engineer – Tech Foundations

• Build and maintain robust, scalable, and secure systems underpinning Airbnb's Zero Trust ecosystem
• Execute critical client, identity, endpoint security, and zero trust platforms
• Work with open source products to build the next-generation client platform for Airbnb corporate endpoints
• Build on the zero trust backend suite, supporting security services, network paths, and user and device signaling
• Support executive-level Airbnb staff with endpoint and identity solutions
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to optimize endpoints and identity flows for employees and partners
• Work closely with security engineering teams to design features and evolve platforms
• Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers

• Define and deliver the roadmap for mesh capabilities, including routing, security, policy, resilience, and multi-region failover
• Set and track SLOs/SLAs for availability and performance and drive data-informed improvements
• Build and mentor a strong engineering team and establish engineering excellence, code health, and operational rigor
• Align with Security, Edge/Traffic, Compute, and Developer Platform on cross-cutting initiatives and standards
• Mature incident management, post-incident learning, change management, and safe rollout practices
• Plan capacity and investments to meet growth while optimizing efficiency and cost
• Design, build, and operate critical service-mesh infrastructure for service discovery, load balancing, access control, traffic failover, and routing
• Contribute to global traffic load balancing, disaster recovery, next-generation service mesh, cross-region gateways, and edge security initiatives
• Collaborate with the open-source community and peer companies on cloud-native engineering challenges at scale

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

Solutions Engineer

• Define and own Airbnb’s Workday integration architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks
• Lead architectural decisions for complex, high-risk integrations, including global rollouts, payroll runs, benefits open enrollment, and system migrations
• Evaluate build-versus-buy, Workday-native-versus-middleware, and long-term integration platform strategies
• Establish reusable integration patterns, error handling/retry frameworks, and observability standards
• Architect, design, build, and maintain inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transforms, and RaaS APIs
• Develop integrations using Workday Web Services, including SOAP and REST
• Own high-volume payroll, benefits, global workforce, and multi-country integration scenarios
• Own Workday payroll interfaces PECI and PICOF and third-party payroll integrations
• Build and maintain Custom Reports and Calculated Fields for integrations and AI-tool consumption
• Build and maintain Workday Extend applications and apply Workday Orchestrate where appropriate
• Manage integrations through Workday’s semi-annual release cycle, including sandbox testing and controlled production deployment
• Own engineering of Airbnb’s Workday MCP server and agentic integrations, including OAuth 2.0 authorization, human-in-the-loop controls, idempotent writes, guardrails, and audit logging
• Co-own Talent Systems AI architecture and governance
• Drive SLAs, monitoring, alerting, reconciliation, runbooks, root-cause analysis, and preventative controls
• Own security, compliance, PII handling, audit controls, and data reconciliation for HR data flows
• Own tenant deployment strategy, Git-based version control, testing, and rollback planning
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Legal/Privacy, IT Security, Finance, enterprise architecture, vendors, and adjacent technology teams
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pair development, and documented standards
• Write integration design documents, MCP tool specifications, and operational runbooks
• Represent Talent Systems in architecture forums, AI tooling reviews, and vendor technical discussions

Staff Workday Integration Engineer

Strategy

• Own positioning and launch communications plans for new features, products, and corporate/community updates
• Establish engagement and business goals for announcements and campaigns
• Develop KPI and measurement frameworks with analysts and data scientists
• Develop campaigns, messaging frameworks, and positioning decks
• Oversee communications execution, including writing and creative work
• Identify key audiences and segments and build supporting plans
• Partner with owners of Community Center, Resource Center, social, CX, and email channels to define editorial approach and messaging
• Manage campaign-related feedback to inform business decisions
• Develop proactive and reactive communications plans
• Report reach, engagement, and relevant business metrics
• Partner with operations to manage and distribute sentiment dashboards
• Champion the community and user in decisions
• Oversee creative collaboration among product design, content strategy, community, and marketing teams
• Serve as an individual contributor and cross-functional leader

Senior Staff Data Engineer, Foundational Data

Recruiter, Sales & G&A

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

Business Systems Engineer – Tech Foundations

Senior Web Software Engineer, Data Science Prototyping

Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics

Lead Platform Manager, Tech Foundations

Tech Ops Fellow

Senior Software Engineer – Tech Foundations

Senior Software Engineer – Tech Foundations

Senior Software Engineer, Tech Foundations

Staff Workday Integration Engineer

Host Communications Strategy Lead