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Software Engineer, Application Platform

United States$162k–$190kmidAdded today

About this role

Join Airbnb's Application Platform team to design and maintain critical distributed systems that power the entire platform. You'll build core infrastructure services like dynamic configuration, job processing, and application gateways while collaborating across teams to ship reliable, high-scale solutions.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement distributed systems serving production traffic in critical user request paths
  • Maintain and debug existing services while improving performance, test coverage, and observability
  • Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to production excellence across owned systems
  • Support other engineers by troubleshooting issues, answering technical questions, and partnering on feature requests
  • Write design documents, lead architecture discussions, and conduct code reviews
  • Stay current with emerging technologies including AI and LLM-powered development approaches

What they're looking for

  • Distributed systems design and implementation
  • Java and microservices architecture
  • Multi-threaded and concurrent system debugging
  • Observability and monitoring systems
  • Technical communication and documentation
  • System trade-off analysis and evaluation
  • AI-first and LLM-powered development approaches
  • Cross-team collaboration and stakeholder management

Benefits

  • Work on critical infrastructure impacting billions of Airbnb users
  • Exposure to AI-first engineering and LLM-powered development
  • Competitive base salary and potential bonus and equity
  • Employee travel credits
  • Collaborative team culture focused on inclusion and belonging
  • Opportunity to shape the future state of platform infrastructure
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airbnb

Airbnb builds hospitality and travel experiences, supported by advanced technology infrastructure. The company is hiring ML engineers to develop AI-powered customer service systems and audiovisual infrastructure engineers to manage large-scale AV systems across global offices.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you designed or debugged a distributed system under production constraints. What trade-offs did you consider?
  • How do you approach on-call responsibilities and handling incidents in critical services?
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