Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Experience (AI)

Location: US - Remote Eligible; must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites may be required.

Base pay range: $196,000–$230,000 USD per year, with possible bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company

Airbnb operates a global platform for hosts to offer stays and experiences to guests in communities around the world.

What you will do

• Build secure, efficient, highly available cloud frameworks and platform capabilities that simplify infrastructure complexity.
• Develop APIs and tools for service management, provisioning, and secure platform scaling.
• Use and extend Kubernetes, Argo CD, and other open-source infrastructure projects, contributing upstream where appropriate.
• Create agent-driven workflows with clear change previews and validation.
• Partner with service owners and engineering teams to improve confusing workflows and developer experience.
• Debug production issues and improve the reliability and visibility of owned systems.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building developer platforms or infrastructure interfaces such as APIs, CLIs, or declarative configuration at large scale.
• Deep understanding of some of the following: Kubernetes, cluster lifecycle, infrastructure automation, public cloud providers including AWS, GCP, or Azure, and their IaaS offerings.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within and across engineering teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and solid production debugging skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI agents that use tools or APIs and evaluating their behavior.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects.
• Experience building Kubernetes controllers.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within the Cloud Infrastructure organization on foundational platform capabilities used across Airbnb.
• Focus on reliability, security, developer experience, efficiency, and scalability.
• Remote-eligible role with occasional office or offsite attendance as agreed with the manager.
• Possible bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
• Disability-inclusive application and interview accommodations are available.

Hiring process

• Applicants requiring disability accommodations should contact the recruiting team after being contacted about the role.
• Apply through Airbnb's official careers page and communicate only with verified Airbnb recruiting email domains.