Principal Engineer, Airbnb
Passport & User Engineering
$288-341.5k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
Open for applications
Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$288-341.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science, related field, or equivalent work experience
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to system architecture and design in consumer-facing technology companies
- Strong leadership skills, with 5+ years of experience as a senior-level technical lead or architect, driving the technical direction and strategy across multiple teams or projects
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working effectively across teams and organizations
- Demonstrated expertise in building and scaling high-availability systems and platforms, with a deep understanding of service-oriented architecture
- Deep knowledge in the domain of identity and user management is highly desirable
What the job involves
- As a Principal Engineer for the Passport & User Engineering, you will lead the architectural design and strategic direction for our user entity and identity systems over the next 5+ years
- You will spearhead initiatives to enhance user product flows, data management, and system integrations across the company, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability at a global scale
- Define the long-term architectural vision for the User entity platform, focusing on scalability, performance, and security
- Drive the design and implementation of high-impact projects that enhance user experience and data integrity across all user interactions
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Legal, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver holistic and high-quality user-centric solutions
- Advocate for and implement best practices and standards in system design, development, and maintenance
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning
- Influence company-wide technology decisions and contribute to the broader architectural roadmap
- User Passport:
- You will contribute to building a comprehensive and rich understanding of our users that matches guests with the perfect hosts and homes.
- Your expertise will help us understand our users and personalize their experiences based on their needs
- User Reputation:
- You will be vital in creating a hospitality system that helps Airbnb and hosts deliver magical stays
- This requires collecting the right quality signals from users and synthesizing quality signals, including reviews, customer service tickets, and others, to form an accurate understanding of user reputation
- User Identity:
- In this role, you will be crucial in establishing user identity workflows, policies, and account management to verify and protect every user account
- Your work will help unify the account creation and management process, ensuring a personalized experience based on the types of users
- User Platform:
- You will have the unique opportunity to shape the technical and product directions from the beginning
- You will be responsible for creating large scalable architecture for one or multiple User domain areas, aligning with other tech and cross-functional leaders from different teams, and leading a group of talented engineers to come up with milestones and execute the design through multiple releases
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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