Senior Software Engineer, Viaduct Backend GraphQL

Airbnb is a global platform connecting hosts and guests, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Viaduct team. This role involves enhancing the GraphQL platform, improving developer experience, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Code in a high-impact, deep-complexity domain. We value a deep-work culture and ensure you have protected focus time to solve hard problems
• Share knowledge and learn from your teammates through collaboration and pairing
• You will navigate ambiguity, taking abstract requirements and refining them into concrete technical roadmaps to improve platform reliability and capabilities
• Partner with our customers - the Viaduct tenant teams - to support their mission to ship an industry-leading user experience
• Contribute to the planning process that informs the strategy and roadmap for the Viaduct platform
• We value sustainable engineering practices. We share on-call responsibilities across a large team and prioritize long-term reliability fixes to minimize off-hours pages

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in a relevant role - ideally in a team that owned a developer platform
• Proficiency and interest working cross-team with both product and infrastructure engineers
• Experience operating critical online backend services
• Comfort shipping high visibility, complex coding projects
• Strong preference: expertise with GraphQL
• Strong preference: expertise with Kotlin
• Strong preference: expertise with AI-enabled development flows