Airbnb · 5 days ago
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Host Pricing & Settings
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
12+ years expAirbnb is a leading platform for unique stays and experiences, and they are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Host Pricing & Settings team. This role involves owning the technical strategy for ML serving infrastructure, leading the buildout of a unified serving stack, and mentoring engineers while ensuring seamless integration of data science and engineering efforts.
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Responsibilities
Define the architecture and contracts governing how models move from development to production — feature store design, model schema management, online/offline inference consistency, and multi-version support
Lead the buildout of a unified serving stack that eliminates per-model one-off implementations and gives data scientists a turnkey path from training to production
Architect backfill and evaluation infrastructure so the modeling team can simulate production inference over historical data in days, not weeks
Establish domain contracts between Modeling and Serving so each team can move independently with clear, enforced interfaces
Review and evolve the ML serving architecture — making tradeoff calls on feature pipeline design, model composition, and API interfaces
Write and review code for feature engineering jobs, feature store configurations, and serving service endpoints
Partner with Data Science, MLE, MLI and core Pricing & Availability systems BE teams to define artifact handoffs and integration contracts
Drive milestone planning across the Host Pricing & Settings org, sequencing work to deliver value incrementally
Mentor engineers through design reviews and hands-on pairing on the hardest infrastructure problems
Qualification
Required
12+ years in backend or platform engineering, with substantial experience building production ML systems or data-intensive infrastructure
Strong programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Scala, and/or Python
Deep understanding of ML systems design: feature stores, training/serving consistency, model versioning, and online/offline inference pipelines
Experience with high-scale batch and real-time data pipelines (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or equivalent), including point-in-time correctness for backfills
Expertise with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications — well-designed APIs, efficient data contracts, multi-tenant serving infrastructure
Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives spanning ML and platform engineering
Preferred
Production experience with Chronon, Tecton, Feast, or equivalent — including online/offline consistency and backfill automation
Experience with model schema management, multi-version support, and model composition frameworks
Track record defining and enforcing technical contracts between ML modeling, MLI, serving teams and/or product surfaces
Measurable impact improving the speed at which ML teams evaluate candidate models and ship to production
Company
Airbnb
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
88%
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Engineering and Development
Product Management
Management and Executive
Accounting and Finance
Creatives and Design
Human Resources
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Customer Service and Support
Education and Training
Marketing
Sales
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (59)
2025 (234)
2024 (176)
2023 (160)
2022 (270)
2021 (250)
2020 (274)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.94BKey Investors
Silver Lake,Sixth StreetVERSO CapitalCapitalG,TCV
2026-03-16Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
Leadership Team
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder / Chief Strategy Officer
Ellie Mertz
Chief Financial Officer
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