Contribute across the team’s surface areas to directly move our core metrics (developer experience, developer velocity, debuggability, performance, and reliability) while reducing cost and providing new functionality.
Partner with Airbnb product teams to understand their pain points, pilot proposed solutions, and encourage adoption of tools and frameworks.
Collaborate with a wide variety of infrastructure teams as well as support product foundation teams.
Participate in all phases of software development from architecture/design through implementation, testing, and on-call.
Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning.

2–4+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role, including frontend web development
Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript
Interest harnessing AI tools (like Claude Code and Codex) to modernize and expedite development practices
Ability to communicate effectively and work closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
Love of collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions
Interest in working with IDE infrastructure, such as: VS Code plugins or language servers, or Claude Code skills and MCP servers
[Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.

Software Engineer, Web Infrastructure

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