Staff Software Engineer, UI Tooling

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Staff Software Engineer leading Kyber, Airbnb’s UI prototyping and rapid deployment platform. Scaling cloud infrastructure and enabling designers, engineers, and product managers to build product prototypes.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the prototyping and rapid deployment platform, Kyber
  • Drive implementation, maintenance, and scaling of a system supporting thousands of internal projects and users
  • Rebuild Kyber onto next-generation cloud platforms
  • Evolve Kyber capabilities to support the product development process
  • Integrate Kyber into Airbnb's ecosystem and prototyping workflows
  • Set technical direction and make architectural decisions for rapid deployment of internal applications and product feature prototypes
  • Write and review code hands-on and with AI coding agents
  • Establish and demonstrate standards for quality, availability, and system health
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Design
  • Enable Product Managers, Designers, and other non-technical builders to create rich product feature prototypes
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews and technical guidance

Requirements:

  • 9+ years of industry experience, ideally within fast-paced environments
  • Track record of delivering large-scale service-oriented systems
  • Broad full-stack engineering capability across backend, frontend, mobile, APIs, and system architecture
  • Proven experience building customer-facing products from zero to one
  • Experience contributing to product definition, technical architecture, development, and launch
  • End-to-end product ownership experience, including iterating on launched products and responding to customer feedback
  • Strong architectural design skills, including high-scale distributed services, well-designed APIs, data pipelines, efficient algorithms, and reliable integrations
  • Sound technical judgment balancing delivery speed, experimentation, scalability, and long-term engineering quality
  • Product-first engineering mindset
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity

Benefits:

  • Bonus eligibility
  • Equity eligibility
  • Benefits
  • Employee Travel Credits
  • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with the manager
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process