Staff Backend Engineer, Host Pricing & Availability

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Host Pricing & Availability team builds the platform and tools that empower hosts to manage their business effectively. We help Airbnb hosts set competitive prices by providing market intelligence, comparable listing data, and demand signals. Additionally, we build advanced tools for seamless calendar management. As a critical component of Airbnb's business and a pillar of trust within our host community, we partner with the Search, Listings, Tax, and Payments teams to ensure accuracy and consistency across our pricing systems. The Difference You Will Make As a Staff Engineer on the Host Pricing and Availability team, you will drive the technical strategy and delivery of Airbnb's pricing product roadmap. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Data Science to architect scalable solutions with clear domain boundaries, while continuously enhancing the performance, efficiency, and impact of our end-to-end architecture. A Typical Day Architect and lead the technical strategy for our pricing and availability backend systems, ensuring APIs, services, and data pipelines are robust today and evolve alongside business needs. Lead the development and optimization of Airbnb’s core pricing and availability products. Collaborate with product engineers and cross-functional partners to develop new host pricing functionality and calendar management tools. Contribute to the long-term backend system architecture within the Host Pricing organization. Champion engineering excellence by establishing architectural standards and mentoring senior engineers to elevat