Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform
Airbnb- Base salary
- $212k–$265k Published base salary range
- Location
- Remote - US (must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity) Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
About the job
About the Role
Airbnb is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the iOS Platform team. The team's mission is to provide a best-in-class experience for iOS development at Airbnb, empowering engineers to deliver innovative solutions with high velocity and quality at scale. The work spans frameworks, tooling, build systems, CI, testing, and AI automations. The role involves driving projects that improve AI agents' effectiveness across the software development workflow by providing the right tools to get work done efficiently and reliably.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with team members and cross-functional partners to identify opportunities for improving developers' productivity.
- Drive roadmap projects and deliver high-quality results.
- Improve existing frameworks and toolings to further the team's mission.
Qualifications
- 9+ years of industry experience in software development.
- Experience building reliable developer tooling in Go.
- Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
- Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large scale migrations.
- Experience identifying and addressing inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
- Experience working in medium- to large-scale codebases.
- iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.
- Nice to have: Experience designing and developing build systems (e.g., Bazel).
Location
This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed with your manager. You must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.
Compensation & Benefits
Base pay range: $212,000—$265,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Application Instructions
Apply via the provided link. For reasonable accommodations during the application process, contact reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com.
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