Staff Frontend Engineer, Client Data & Networking Platform

The Client Data & Networking Platform team at Airbnb is responsible for the data layer of our client tech stack, including the GraphQL runtime, client networking infrastructure, and developer tooling. Our frameworks and tools are essential for nearly every product team at Airbnb, and we shape how frontend engineers build and ship products.

About the role

We are seeking a frontend engineer to join our team and help Airbnb engineers build fast, reliable, and data-rich features at scale. You will partner with product teams to understand their challenges and priorities, and use this insight to design and implement improvements to our infrastructure and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and drive adoption of paved-path tooling and frameworks.
• Closely collaborate with Android and iOS engineers on the team to develop foundational, cross-platform solutions.
• Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams and 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.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience.
• Extensive experience working with TypeScript to develop web applications, including designing and integrating with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Experience on a Platform, Infrastructure, or Developer Productivity team at a medium to large engineering organization.
• Strong engineering fundamentals, including a solid understanding of client networking, performance optimization, caching strategies, client storage solutions, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience mentoring and growing engineers across an organization and driving best practices for web client development.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy and shape technical priorities across a large organization.
• Interest in developing internal tooling and CLI applications.
• Experience building agentic AI solutions is a plus.

Qualifications

• Location: US - Remote Eligible.
• The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager.
• This position is eligible for remote work in states where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

Benefits

• Our commitment to inclusion and belonging fosters a diverse and engaged workforce.
• We strive to provide a disability-inclusive application and interview process.

Pay

• Base pay range: $204,000—$255,000 USD.
• The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands.
• The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.