Senior Software Engineer, Insurance Platform

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:

The Insurance team at Airbnb is responsible for providing comprehensive protection for both guests and hosts. They manage the AirCover program, which includes Guest Travel Insurance, Host income protection, Host liability insurance, and Host damage protection. The team ensures that Guest and Host are protected against various scenarios such as guest-caused damage and deep cleaning needs, and they support guests with rebooking, refunds, and safety assistance.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Inclusive and supportive work environment. We promote sustainable engineering practices, well-being / healthy team dynamics, and value differences.
• Career development -- internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities.
• Work on launching and expanding our insurance products across global markets.
• Seize greenfield opportunities on a fast-growing team.
• Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout.
• Drive business growth through the implementation of cutting-edge technologies, including the innovative use of LLM.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and numerous platform teams within Airbnb.

A Typical Day: 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Insurance team , you will:

• Be the technical lead and owner of significant scope, working through ambiguity, concept validation and implementation of a best-in-class solution.
• Build our platforms--infrastructure, applications and tools using your expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure.
• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
• Be a player/coach of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence.
• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution.
• Work with cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Prior real-word experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, GraphQL, Python, Go, Rust, C/C++/C#.
• Experience architecting and/or developing concurrency, multithreading and synchronization in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners.
• Experience in analyzing extensive data sets to identify gaps and inconsistencies, offering data insights, and advancing effective product solutions.
• Proficient in designing and deploying high-performance systems with reliable monitoring and logging practices. Possess a working knowledge of relational databases and expertise in query authoring (SQL).
• Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on technical leadership leading multiple teams and setting technical direction.
• Expertise in architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact.
• Expertise with global infrastructure, networking, massive data storage systems, load balancing, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

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 broadesåt 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.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.