Staff Software Engineer, Tax Engineering

About the role

Global Tax Engineering at Airbnb solves some of the most challenging and unique problems faced by our business. We are composed of multiple, highly skilled teams of engineers that own Guest and Host facing product experiences and backend systems that unlock and protect Airbnb's ability to operate across the vast number of jurisdictions around the world.

What it's like to work here

• Inclusive and supportive work environment. We promote sustainable engineering practices, well-being / healthy team dynamics, and value differences.
• Career development—internal mobility, mentoring opportunities, and leadership development opportunities.
• Work on launching and expanding our protection products across global markets.
• Seize greenfield opportunities on a fast-growing team.
• Deliver on a strategic, multi-year platform roadmap and global rollout.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data science, data engineering, and numerous platform teams within Airbnb.

The difference you will make

As part of the Tax Engineering team at Airbnb, you'll help build an extensible tax platform designed to support Airbnb's global growth and ensure compliance. Your work will focus on improving the accuracy, latency, and reliability of Airbnb's host-facing tax systems, and on leading engineers through significant architectural changes. You'll also have the opportunity to shape the team's technical roadmap and long-term strategy, helping decide not just how we build but what we take on and in what order. The role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams and product stakeholders across the organization. You'll bring a strong problem-solving mindset and deliver thoughtful solutions to the complex challenges of global taxation.

A typical day

• Build microservices, APIs to drive platform integrations across web and mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build interfaces and systems that can evolve to meet critical business needs.
• Build our platforms—infrastructure, applications and tools, and gain expertise in distributed systems, large compute clusters and petabyte-scale storage infrastructure.
• Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution.

Your expertise

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years industry experience.
• Prior real-world experience and demonstrable knowledge in any of Java, Kotlin, Relational Database and distributed systems.
• Experience leading teams through technical discussions, mentoring other engineers, and driving engineering excellence across team boundaries.
• Proven ability to work closely with partner teams to build alignment on key architectural decisions and trade-offs, guiding the org toward effective and scalable solutions.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines and efficient algorithms.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners.
• Familiarity with AI development tools.
• Strong understanding of systems reliability, including observability, incident management, and building fault-tolerant services.
• Experience managing engineers, or a strong interest in growing into people leadership over time.

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.

Pay

$212,000—$265,000 USD