Staff Software Engineer, Community Support Engineering

Airbnb is a global company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. The Staff GenAI Backend Engineer on the ARC team will lead engineering delivery on strategic programs to enhance customer support experiences, ensuring high availability and scalability of core routing infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineering delivery on strategic programs that enable intelligent agent matching, personalized support experiences for high-value customers, and next-generation routing and communication channel capabilities
• Own and evolve core routing infrastructure, including decision engines, workflow orchestration, and routing rule management. Ensuring high availability, correctness, and scalability across millions of daily support interactions
• Drive consolidation of fragmented routing logic spread across multiple platforms and channels into a centralized, auditable, and maintainable system
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Data Science, and partner engineering teams to align on priorities and deliver outcomes that improve the customer support experience
• Contribute to technical quality through design reviews, code reviews, and pragmatic architectural decision-making
• Play a critical role in building the team's technical depth by actively mentoring junior engineers, setting clear growth expectations, and driving a culture where engineers consistently level up
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, engineering, and data science teams to develop backend systems and enhance AI prompt effectiveness for routing and differentiated service experiences
• Lead and contribute across the full development lifecycle: technical design, implementation, testing, experimentation, and production deployment
• Champion a culture of engineering excellence by role modeling best practices in design, code quality, and cross-functional collaboration, and creating an environment where engineers at all levels continuously grow
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to ensure the reliability of routing infrastructure serving millions of Airbnb guests and hosts
• Engage in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and design doc sharing sessions to keep ARC's delivery on track
• Optimize system availability, performance, and scalability while pushing enhancements for improved efficiency across AI-driven routing workflows
• Collaborate with cross-regional engineering partners to align on shared routing capabilities and drive consistency across global support operations

Requirements:

• 9+ years of software development experience in service-oriented architectures and backend development
• Expertise in workflow optimization and backend systems, with a focus on scalable and flexible architecture
• Expertise in designing and iterating on prompt engineering to fine-tune AI capabilities for AI/LLM-driven scenarios
• Expertise of RAG patterns, memory routing, and agent planning
• Proficiency in crafting backend systems focusing on technical quality, efficiency, and resilience
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively across teams and domains
• Passion for agile development, system optimization, and team productivity enhancements
• Bachelor's and/or Master's/Ph.D. degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience