Senior Staff Engineer, Global Markets

*Please submit your English resume. 

The Community You Will Join:

The Global Markets engineering team is focusing on evolving our guest and host experience for global markets through new product initiatives to accelerate international growth. 

Expanding in under-penetrated global markets is a key pillar of our company’s growth strategy. To achieve this, we want to innovate in every sense of the world and adapt our product to every corner of the globe. We want every user in each of our 220+ countries and regions to feel right at home.

The Difference You Will Make:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated product engineering leader who is passionate about making a difference through their work. As a technical leader, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the technical and product strategy of international growth, design systems that can adapt our product to every corner of the globe sustainably, and lead a group of talented engineers to deliver high quality user experiences.  

A Typical Day: 

• Work with cross functional partners (product managers, legal etc) to design and deliver high-quality productsLead efforts to architect, prototype, build and launch solutions for international markets
• Provide critical input in team roadmap and technical direction.
• Influence and collaborate with stakeholders to adopt team goals and roadmaps
• Mentor engineers both within and outside of the team

Your Expertise:

• 12+ years of full-time work experience in software engineering, information technology, or related domains.
• Experience with designing and building large scale production systems or features.
• Technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate ideas, and working cross functionally with Product and Data Science teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. Examples of working across teams and organizations on technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across team boundaries and provide guidance to individual teams.
• Willing to work across the full stack to address technical challenges anywhere in the system.
• Experience with working in a cross-functional team that touches many of the core systems and user flows at Airbnb.
• Fluent both in English and Chinese.

Your Location:

This position is China - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. Your recruiter will inform you what cities you are able to work from depending on your personal legal working identity and Airbnb internal policies.

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.