Software Engineer, Web Infrastructure

The Community You Will Join:

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. It takes a unified team committed to our core values to achieve this goal. Airbnb's various functions embody the company's innovative spirit and our fast-moving team is committed to leading as a 21st century company.

The Difference You Will Make:

The Web Platform’s mission is to empower engineers at Airbnb working within our TypeScript monorepo to deliver innovative features with high velocity and quality, by providing foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools for development, testing, and release, while increasingly enabling developer productivity through AI-powered tooling (e.g., Claude, Codex). With a focus on web-specific technologies and integrations, the team serves as a nexus between product engineers and platform-agnostic infrastructure teams, as well as shaping and ensuring the health of the monorepo itself.

Critical to achieving this is providing Airbnb’s web developers with high quality tools tailored to Airbnb’s unique needs. A key priority is delivering a best-in-class, out-of-the-box developer experience, where AI-assisted workflows, strong defaults, and clear patterns enable engineers to move faster with confidence.

The broader surface area of the team includes things like testing frameworks, developer environments, build systems and bundlers, CI pipelines, observability and experimentation libraries, editor integrations, and an internal web service framework. These investments directly improve the productivity, effectiveness, and day-to-day experience of Airbnb’s web developers.

A Typical Day: 

As an engineer on Web Platform, you will work on technologies that help shape an industry-leading end-to-end developer experience. In this role you will:

• Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics (developer experience, developer velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability) while reducing cost and providing new functionality to help make our team’s vision, and that of our broader org, a reality. Upcoming projects include modularizing our client observability libraries, code editor and Claude skills developer experience improvements, bundler enhancements, and improving CI debuggability.
• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and encourage adoption of tools and frameworks.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings. 
• Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.
• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning.

Your Expertise:

• 2–4+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role, including frontend web development
• Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript
• Interest harnessing AI tools (like Claude Code and Codex) to modernize and expedite development practices
• Ability to communicate effectively and work closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
• Love of collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
• Interest in working with IDE infrastructure, such as: VS Code plugins or language servers, or Claude Code skills and MCP servers
• [Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.