Senior Staff Engineer, Communication & Connectivity
Senior technical IC focused on backend architecture and AI technologies for Airbnb's communication and connectivity platform. Partners with senior leaders and contributes code while providing technical leadership across teams.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with cross functional teams including design, product marketing, prototyping and others to envision a unique, delightful, extensible guest-host communication experience
- Envision and build a scalable foundation for reaching out hosts in need through notifications
- Explore ways to uplift our partner integration platform leveraging advanced AI technology
- Understand how key technical decisions will drive business outcomes and deliver frameworks and platforms that improve delivery with high-quality to those outcomes
- Perform design and code reviews and advise/mentor other engineers at Airbnb
Requirements
- 12+ years relevant experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
- Experience building, leading, and architecting full-stack products and systems at enterprise scale with a great impact
- Experience in applying modern artificial intelligence technologies to products and development cycles
- Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, and working cross functionally with Product and Data Science teams
- Strong communication and collaboration skills. Examples of working across teams and organizations on technical initiatives
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