Software Engineer, Web Platform

Airbnb is a mission-driven company dedicated to helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. The Web Platform’s mission is to empower engineers at Airbnb by providing foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools for development, testing, and release, while enhancing developer productivity through AI-powered tooling.

Responsibilities:

• 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 to help make our team’s vision, and that of our broader org, a reality. Upcoming projects include modularizing our client observability libraries, code editor and Claude skills developer experience improvements, bundler enhancements, and improving CI debuggability
• 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 as they build additional capabilities on top of the team’s offerings
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments