Software Engineer, Payments

Airbnb is seeking a Software Engineer for their Payments Infrastructure team. This role is crucial in building and maintaining Airbnb's global payments platform, which moves billions of dollars across 191 countries in 75 currencies. The Payments Infrastructure team's mission is to create great infrastructure experiences and ensure Payments products are reliable, scalable, and performant.

Key responsibilities include:

• Collaborating with senior engineers and TPMs to understand and solve Payments engineers' needs in developer and production infrastructure.
• Contributing to the design and implementation of technical solutions.
• Driving medium-sized infrastructure-related projects as part of larger Airbnb infra evolution initiatives.
• Solving technical issues related to the availability, scalability, and performance of payments flows, services, and storage systems.
• Working on unique infrastructure needs for payments due to business or technical initiatives, such as building frameworks for e2e payment observability and anomaly detection.

The ideal candidate will have:

• 2+ years of relevant software development experience in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment.
• Strong coding skills in Python/Java/Scala or equivalent.
• Experience building and operating high-scale, distributed systems.
• Ability to decompose large-scale distributed systems and debug efficiently.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within and across teams.
• Hands-on experience with distributed storage/database systems (MySQL, TiDB/CockroachDB, HBase, Cassandra, Redis, etc.) is preferred.
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) is preferred.
• Knowledge of Payments and Commerce is a plus.

This position offers a competitive salary range of $153,000 - $180,000 USD, with potential for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. The role is US - Remote Eligible, with occasional work at Airbnb offices or offsites as agreed with the manager.