Senior Software Engineer, Search and Personalization 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.

Search is at the core of the Airbnb marketplace that connects our guests and hosts. It helps guests find the best homes and experiences to fit their needs and wants. We collaborate with cross-functional partners to revolutionize Airbnb search experience, and advance Airbnb's mission to help anyone feel like they can belong anywhere.

The Difference You Will Make:

• Work on search infrastructure engineering projects to improve search experience, in collaboration with product teams.
• Up-level search system reliability, scalability and performance, in collaboration with Infrastructure teams.
• Use the data in the Knowledge Graph to power rich product use-cases and also enrich the existing data based on measurement 
• Build the next generation search platform to power different products at Airbnb, including typeahead, contextualizing and personalizing search results.

A Typical Day: 

• A large chunk of focused time to implement important components of the search platform, with GitHub Copilot as your assistant.
• Analyze large amounts of data, build hypotheses, experiment, learn and iterate. 
• Give technical presentations/proposals to partners, add documentation about existing systems.
• Discuss with cross-functional partners (e.g., product managers, designers) on the technical design of an exciting new search feature.
• Attend an in-person gathering with team members and partners.

Your Expertise:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics is required.
• Exceptional coding skills in Java and Python and clear understanding of Algorithms/Data structures. This position requires 80% of the time coding. If coding is not your interest or strength, need not apply. Similarly, analyzing and deriving insights from large data sets by applying simple ML techniques is required. 
• Willingness to try, experiment and learn new concepts with a positive attitude to work is highly desirable.
• Open source committers to Lucene/ElasticSearch are very welcome!
• Good technical writing skills are desirable.
• New Graduates may also apply if able to provide evidence of having written large amounts of code/building systems.

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.