Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform

📋 Job Overview

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

🏢 About Airbnb

The iOS Platform team’s mission is to provide best-in-class experience for iOS development at Airbnb to empower engineers to deliver innovative solutions with high velocity and quality at scale.

We’re ambitious in our vision, and our work spans a large surface area, from frameworks and tooling to build systems, CI, Testing, and AI automations. We maintain and evolve the core libraries & frameworks that underlie most of the Airbnb iOS app and enable product engineers to build great features. Our application is nearly 100% written in Swift and we adopt the latest Apple technologies including SwiftUI, Swift Macros, Swift Testing, and structured concurrency.

🎯 The Role

In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving projects that improve AI agents’ effectiveness across the software development workflow by providing the right tools to get work done efficiently and reliably, with high-quality results.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members & cross functional partners to identify opportunities for improving our developers’ productivity.
• Drive roadmap projects and deliver high-quality results to further our mission.
• Improve our existing frameworks & toolings to deliver on our ambitious vision.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Experience building reliable developer tooling in Go.
• Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
• Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software development workflows and drive large scale migrations.
• Experience identifying and addressing inefficiencies in AI agent workflows to improve execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
• Experience working in medium- to large-scale codebases.
• iOS development experience in Swift, including building applications, libraries, and frameworks.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience designing and developing build systems (e.g. Bazel).
• Ability to travel to the San Francisco office for about a week each quarter for gatherings.

🎁 Benefits

Pay Range: $212,000 - $265,000 USD

This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.