Senior Software Engineer, i18n Infrastructure

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

The Difference You Will Make:

The Internationalization Infrastructure team (i18n team) aims to foster global belonging and offer the best localization experience by providing reliable, efficient, scalable, and extensible globalization infrastructure and tooling for Airbnb code, content, and stakeholders. In Bytelevel Research’s 2024 Globalization Report Card, Airbnb ranked #2 among the top 150 global companies, and #1 for six years in a row among all companies in the Travel & Hospitality sector.

The I18n Infrastructure team is a part of the Core Services org within Infrastructure and works closely with our broader Globalization business org to contribute directly to top-line goals as well as make the entire engineering organization more productive. We are infrastructure engineers with a human focus: customer-centric, quality driven, helpful and empathetic.

A Typical Day:

Millions of users across the world engage with the Airbnb app in their preferred languages every day. As an engineer on the i18n Infrastructure team, you will be critical to the continued success and broad appeal of Airbnb. In this role, you will have an opportunity to:

• Build intuitive workflows and tools to serve the needs of our stakeholders, business partners, and end users
• Enable the internationalization infrastructure to scale cost efficiently
• Work cross-functionally with partners in Globalization, Data Science, user facing product teams, vertical platform teams, and external vendors
• Build scalable systems supporting high scale real-time translation requests and efficient and cost-effective retrieval of translated content
• Be part of an impactful infrastructure team while contributing to and learning industry best practices on internationalization

We’re looking for engineers who:

• Want to tackle projects with large open-ended scope and drive significant business impact
• Love collaborating via product reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions
• Are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• Will be owners and stewards of Airbnb’s multilingual capabilities

Your Expertise:

• 5-9+ years of industry experience with a BS/Masters preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Strong programming skills for hands-on IC work, particularly in back-end server languages (Java, Kotlin, C++ or equivalent)
• Experience with building, maintaining and optimizing large-scale backend systems, APIs, and databases within a large-scale service-oriented architecture
• Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
• Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript / Typescript, and modern JavaScript libraries and tooling (e.g. React and GraphQL)
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners
• Passionate about globalization, user experience, efficiency, availability, and system quality

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.