Staff Frontend Engineer, Client Data & Networking Platform

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join:

The Client Data & Networking Platform team owns the data layer of Airbnb's client tech stack, including the GraphQL runtime, client networking infrastructure, and the developer tooling built on top of it. Our frameworks and tools are relied upon by nearly every product team at Airbnb, and through education and clear guidance on best practices, the team shapes how frontend engineers across the company build and ship products.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a frontend engineer on the team, you will empower Airbnb engineers to build fast, reliable, and data-rich features at scale. In close collaboration with product engineers, you will gain a deep understanding of their challenges and priorities, and use these insights to design and implement improvements to infrastructure and tooling that have a meaningful impact on the way teams build and deliver products.

A Typical Day:

• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved-path tooling and frameworks.
• Work closely with Android and iOS engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross-platform solutions.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as 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.

Your Expertise:

• 10+ years of industry experience.
• Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Experience on a Platform, Infrastructure, or Developer Productivity team at a medium to large engineering organization.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for web client development.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization.
• Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI (command line interface) applications. Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus.

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.

How We'll Take Care of You:

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

Pay Range

$204,000—$255,000 USD