💼 About This Role

Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy and drive innovative initiatives for international guest experiences. The role involves setting technical vision, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering high-quality products that are highly available, secure, efficient, and scalable.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Own technical vision and lead effort to architecture, prototype, build and launch solutions for international markets initiatives
• Lead complex, cross-team execution from design through launch, including team roadmap, technical direction, migration plans, rollout strategy, and long-term operability
• Drive engineering excellence through reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency
• Influence roadmaps and collaborate with stakeholders across regions, such as drives alignment, resolves tradeoffs, leads through ambiguity
• Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team

📋 Requirements

• Fluency in English
• Japanese or Korean working proficiency is a plus
• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including Tech Lead responsibilities
• Proven track record leading end-to-end delivery of high-impact, user-facing products
• Strong product mindset connecting technical decisions to customer outcomes and business impact
• Expertise designing and operating systems that are highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient
• Strong experience working in cross-functional, global environments
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers, raise quality bar through reviews and coaching
• Establish and drive best practices