# Staff Backend Engineer, Host Pricing & Availability

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $212k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Backend Systems, service-oriented architectures, APIs, Data Pipelines, technical strategy, System Architecture, mentoring
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Staff Backend Engineer driving technical strategy for Airbnb's host pricing and availability platform. Lead architecture of scalable backend systems, APIs, services and data pipelines while collaborating with Product, Design and Data Science to deliver pricing intelligence and calendar tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect and lead the technical strategy for pricing and availability backend systems, ensuring APIs, services, and data pipelines are robust and evolve with business needs.
- Lead the development and optimization of core pricing and availability products.
- Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Data Science) to develop new host pricing functionality and calendar management tools.
- Contribute to long-term backend system architecture within the Host Pricing organization.
- Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers.

## Requirements
- 9+ years of engineering experience with a BS/MS or PhD in CS or similar.
- Proven track record of leading teams, setting technical strategy, and launching high-impact product features.
- Expertise with backend systems in large-scale service-oriented architectures.
- Experience influencing cross-functional partners and engineering teams.
- Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality.
- Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Strong problem-solving and production debugging abilities.

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