Software Engineer (Internationalization Infrastructure)

Location: Not specified for the role. Company offices: United States.

Salary: $196,000–$230,000 USD per year, with potential bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company

Airbnb is a global travel and hospitality platform connecting hosts and guests through stays and experiences.

What you will do

• Design and build high-scale translation workflows, APIs, UIs, and libraries for consistent internationalization across Airbnb.
• Simplify legacy systems through incremental migrations while improving reliability, observability, latency, security, and cost efficiency.
• Prototype applications of machine learning and large language models and turn validated ideas into durable platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with Globalization, Data Science and ML, product and platform teams, content stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Measure outcomes across quality, cost, latency, adoption, developer productivity, and operational load.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience with a BS or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong hands-on programming skills in Java, Kotlin, C++, or a comparable backend language.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, APIs, storage and caching systems, event-driven processing, or service-oriented architectures at scale.
• Experience with production migrations, testing, observability, and operational ownership.
• Proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript and experience with React or comparable modern web technologies.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and agents, with sound judgment regarding quality and verification.

Nice to have

• Interest in building AI-enabled platform capabilities.
• Passion for globalization, inclusive user experiences, and multilingual infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven environment focused on helping people belong anywhere.
• Collaboration across engineering, product, data science, globalization, and external partners.
• Potential bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• Disability-inclusive application and interview accommodations are available.