Senior Software Engineer, Web Platform

Join Airbnb's Web Platform Team

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to creating a world where anyone can belong anywhere. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Web Platform team, you will play a crucial role in empowering engineers at Airbnb to deliver innovative features with high velocity and quality. This team provides foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools for development, testing, and release, focusing on web-specific technologies and integrations.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics such as developer experience, velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability.
• Work on projects like modularizing client observability libraries, improving code editor developer experience, enhancing bundler capabilities, and improving CI debuggability.
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and encourage adoption of tools and frameworks.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams and support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings.
• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.
• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning.

Your Expertise

• 6+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role, including frontend web development.
• Strong expertise with TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Strong communication skills and experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces.
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity.
• Expertise with working with documentation infrastructure like Backstage or similar, and/or working on IDE infrastructure like VS Code plugins or language server.
• Prior experience developing code leveraged by other developers.
• [Bonus] Experience working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.

Work Environment

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.

Compensation

• Base Salary: $185,000—$223,000 USD
• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Join us in shaping an industry-leading end-to-end developer experience at Airbnb!