Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host

The Community You Will Join:

The Pricing & Availability Platform (PnA) team owns the common core computation engine for pricing and availability across all of Airbnb's verticals — Stays, Experiences, Services, and Hotels. Our systems power dynamic price calculations, promotional logic, fee and currency computations, real-time inventory management, and booking constraints for every guest and host interaction on Airbnb.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Pricing & Availability Platform team, you'll help lead the design and evolution of mission-critical backend services at the core of Airbnb's marketplace. Our domains are innately complex — a key part of the role is building clean, reliable abstractions that hide that complexity, enabling stakeholder teams across Airbnb to move fast while maintaining correctness and consistency across all surfaces.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Architect and evolve core platform capabilities — including pricing computation, availability determination, and fee logic — that power every booking on Airbnb at scale


• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation


• Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations


• Identify and propose solutions to problems coming in the way of technical and product engineering excellence


• Collaborate with internal teams across PDP, Search, Checkout, Reservations, Host Settings, Payments, Tax, and others to deliver consistent and reliable pricing and availability across all Airbnb surfaces

A Typical Day:

As a Senior Software Engineer on Pricing & Availability Platform, you will:

• Architect and implement complex backend features and platform improvements, with a focus on correctness, reliability, and performance at scale.


• Collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners across the organization to understand and prioritize technical requirements.


• Proactively grow knowledge of leading edge practices and trends.


• Advocate for and participate in efforts with other engineering teams to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations.


• Drive systemic improvements by identifying patterns to streamline development, reduce toil and increase technical quality and operational excellence over time.


• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.


• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.


• Considerable experience working in Java and/or Kotlin


• Experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems or data computation pipelines.


• Demonstrated expertise in backend systems within large-scale service-oriented architectures.


• Passionate about efficiency, reliability, technical correctness, and system quality.


• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work well within engineering organizations and across functions.


• Ability to drive alignment, manage projects and effectively collaborate with stakeholders.


• Capable of making data driven decisions and articulating tradeoffs in any technical decisions.

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.