# Staff Software Engineer, Passport & Commerce

**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $212k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 9+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Data Consistency, Caching, Service Decomposition, API Design, Backend Systems, Data Modeling, System Architecture, Financial Transactions, Entitlements, Service Reliability, Scalability, Data Integrity, Technical Leadership, Mentoring
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Staff engineer responsible for architecting and scaling Airbnb’s account platform, including account state, eligibility, and entitlements. The role requires 9+ years of distributed backend systems experience, strong technical leadership, and expertise in reliability, consistency, caching, and API design.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and evolve core services and data models that track account state, eligibility, and entitlements across millions of accounts.
- Partner with product and design to translate new product concepts into scalable, extensible technical designs.
- Collaborate with Payments and Wallet engineering to ensure credits, discounts, and host-funded programs settle correctly end-to-end.
- Set technical direction and lead design reviews across a growing team.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar on system design.
- Drive cross-team architecture decisions with Identity & Privacy and Profile & Community teams to keep account state consistent.
- Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, and data-integrity risks before they affect guests or hosts.

## Requirements
- 9+ years of experience designing and scaling complex, distributed backend systems.
- Proven track record of technical leadership in high-growth environments.
- Experience setting architecture direction for a team or domain, beyond delivering individual features.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems fundamentals, including data consistency, caching, service decomposition, and API design at scale.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical decisions across multiple teams.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity on a newly formed team, including helping define team scope, roadmap, and technical foundations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across engineering, product, and design partners.

## Nice to Have
- Experience building or operating systems involving financial transactions, entitlements, or other stateful account data.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base pay range: **$212,000–$265,000 USD**.
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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