About this opportunity
Airbnb lists this Senior Software Engineer (Community Support Engineering) opportunity in san francisco, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Providing world-class customer service for our community of guests and hosts is a critical mission at Airbnb
The Ambassador Routing & Channels (ARC) team sits within Airbnb Community Support and is responsible for powering intelligent, differentiated service experiences, ensuring every support request, across any channel, is addressed by the right expert at the right time
Our work directly drives faster resolutions, higher quality interactions, and exceptional customer satisfaction at scale
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the ARC team, you will contribute meaningfully across our core routing and differentiated service programs:
Contribute to and lead engineering delivery on 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
Help 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
Support the team’s technical growth by mentoring junior engineers and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence
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
Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence by role modeling best practices in design, code quality, and cross-functional collaboration
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
Benefits
Paid volunteer time
Health food and snacks
Generous parental and family leave
Learning and development
Annual travel and experiences credit
Expertise in workflow optimization and backend systems, with a focus on scalable and flexible architecture
Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively across teams and domains
Familiarity with RAG patterns, memory routing, and agent planning
Bachelor’s and/or Master’s/Ph.D. degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Passion for agile development, system optimization, and team productivity enhancements
Experience designing and iterating on prompt engineering to fine-tune AI capabilities for AI/LLM-driven scenarios
Proficiency in crafting backend systems focusing on technical quality, efficiency, and resilience
6+ years of software development experience in service-oriented architectures and backend development
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Worksite address
san francisco, CA, 94199, US
Who can apply
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