Software Engineer, DevAI
- Salary
- $162,000 - $190,000
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 22 October 2026.
About the role
Airbnb's standard text
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.
The Community You Will Join:
Our mission is to make every Airbnb engineer's day better by building world-class developer infrastructure that removes friction and provides the tools to unlock their best work. The Dev AI team specifically builds the foundational AI tooling and infrastructure that powers developer productivity across the entire software development lifecycle, also providing the building blocks for teams across the company to quickly and simply create their own domain-specific AI tools. We currently serve as both a platform team and an internal AI consultancy for partner teams building their own internally-facing AI-powered solutions.
In this role, you will help to shape and execute the technical direction of the team's infrastructure and products. You'll work across a range of exciting problem spaces, from agentic coding tools and asynchronous AI workflow platforms, to SDKs for rapid internal AI app development and AI-assisted code migration. At Airbnb, you won't just build AI tools; your work will shape how individuals across the company work every day. The tools you create will directly accelerate the pace of innovation across our entire product surface.
We're a collaborative, low-ego, and highly-visible team that values experimentation, learning, and shipping. We celebrate what works and learn quickly from what doesn't. Given the rapid evolution of AI, we strive to operate with startup-like agility, iterating swiftly to evaluate and incorporate the most recent AI technologies into our developer tooling. If you enjoy building, collaborating across teams, thrive when given high autonomy, and are motivated to make the lives of other developers easier and more enjoyable, we’d love to hear from you.
A Typical Day:
- Help shape and drive our AI for Developers strategy, from ideation through shipping, while bringing strong sense of ownership and coding across various stacks
- Make pragmatic architectural and technical decisions, balancing ambition with real-world constraints and long-term operability
- Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape, and help the team balance innovation with incremental, measurable developer impact
- Serve as a champion, expert, coach, and consultant to empower teams and leaders across the company to adopt and leverage new AI capabilities in their day to day workflows
- Champion engineering excellence through high-quality code, thoughtful design, and reliable systems
- Participate in on-call rotations and drive operational excellence for the team's platform components
Your Expertise:
- 2+ years industry experience (or equivalent depth of expertise)
- Prior experience building developer infrastructure, tooling, or platforms, ideally at scale and with tools, frameworks, or systems commonly used in the industry
- Hands-on experience applying AI technologies to real-world software development challenges
- A track record of quickly ramping up in new domains, technologies, or languages — and a genuine excitement for continuous learning
- Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Typescript, or Kotlin
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience
Your Location:
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. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.
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Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:
Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process.
We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Airbnb values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Airbnb are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.
How We'll Take Care of You:
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Pay Range
$162,000—$190,000 USD
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Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.
A Note on Recruiting Scams: Scammers sometimes pose as Airbnb recruiters to get money or personal information from candidates. A few things that will always be true for Airbnb’s hiring process: our open roles are posted on Airbnb’s Career’s Page at careers.airbnb.com, and our recruiters correspond only from @airbnb.com or @ext.airbnb.com email addresses. Our recruiters will never ask for your Social Security number, bank account details, passport, or payment app information while you are interviewing.
We’ll also never ask you to pay a fee, send money, deposit or cash a check, or purchase work-related equipment (such as a company laptop) during the interview process. We encourage candidates to remain vigilant of these recruiting scams and not share sensitive information if you do not believe an individual is actually affiliated with Airbnb.
What this role asks for
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Compared with Airbnb's other open jobs.
The team: Software Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 53 open in Software Engineering. 23 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Java (21 of 53), Python (21 of 53), Machine Learning (19 of 53), LLM (18 of 53), SQL (13 of 53), Scala (12 of 53), Golang (11 of 53)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Data Engineer, Payments posted Oct 21
- Software Engineer, Payments posted Oct 21
- Senior Software Engineer, Users Foundation posted Oct 20
- Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Experience posted Oct 20
- Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure posted Oct 20
- Staff Software Engineer - Hosting Services posted Oct 16
- Engineering Manager, Secure Development Engineering posted Oct 13
- Senior Software Engineer, Payments Transaction Risk posted Oct 13
- Senior Software Engineer, Analytics Infrastructure posted Oct 13
- Software Engineer, Analytics Infrastructure posted Oct 13
- Staff Software Engineer, Data Authoring posted Oct 9
- Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform posted Oct 9
- Senior Software Engineer, iOS Platform posted Oct 9
- Staff Software Engineer, Payments (AirCover Insurance Platform) posted Oct 6
- Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Quality Platform posted Oct 6
- Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure posted Oct 6
- Senior Security Assurance Analyst posted Oct 5
- Senior Software Engineer, Guest & Host posted Oct 5
- Senior Staff Engineer, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality) posted Sep 29
- Engineering Manager, Guest & Host (Host Listings & Quality) posted Sep 29
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust posted Sep 24
- Senior Staff Data Engineer, Foundational Data posted Sep 22
- Senior Software Engineer, Tech Foundations posted Sep 17
- Senior Software Engineer, Storage posted Sep 14
- Staff Software Engineer, Data Warehouse posted Sep 11
- Staff Software Engineer, Data Catalog posted Sep 9
- Early Career Software Engineer, Quality Platform posted Aug 24
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust posted Aug 14
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence posted Aug 13
- Senior Engineering Manager, Media Foundation posted Aug 4
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Technology posted Jul 29
- Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Platform posted Jul 22
- Operations Engineer, BizTech posted Jul 20
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Query Intelligence posted Jul 14
- Senior Software Engineer, Service Tools posted Jun 24
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Jun 23
- Senior Staff Data Engineer - Data Stewardship posted Jun 10
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Jun 2
- Principal Machine Learning Engineer- LLM Fine-tuning and Optimization posted May 24
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Post Training posted May 5
- Staff Software Engineer, Unified Data Store posted Apr 29
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust posted Apr 21
- Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Apr 20
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Platform Engineering posted Apr 14
- Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments posted Mar 26
- Machine Learning Engineer, Assistance Engineering posted Mar 23
- Staff Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure posted Mar 11
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trust posted Feb 5
- Engineering Manager, Guest & Host posted Jan 23
- Staff Software Engineer, Marketplaces & Intelligence Data and AI posted Jan 12
- Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments posted Jan 9
- Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data & Eval posted Mar 30
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