Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Airbnb

This role is ideal for a Senior Android Engineer who specializes in **Quality Engineering** and test infrastructure. You should have at least 5 years of profess

Work type: remote

Location: Remote - US

Salary: $191,000 – $223,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

This role is ideal for a Senior Android Engineer who specializes in **Quality Engineering** and test infrastructure. You should have at least 5 years of professional mobile experience (or 2+ years with a PhD) and a deep mastery of the Android ecosystem, specifically **Kotlin** and **Espresso**. The team is looking for a "developer-first" quality mindset—someone who doesn't just run tests, but builds the frameworks and distributed systems that allow hundreds of other engineers to deploy code safely. The compensation is highly competitive ($191k–$223k base), supplemented by equity and Airbnb’s famous **Employee Travel Credits**. While the initial listing mentions "on-site," the detailed description confirms this is **US-Remote Eligible** (in approved states), offering significant geographical flexibility. You’ll be working at a massive scale, influencing how a global platform ensures reliability for millions of users. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have extensive experience building or maintaining custom **automation frameworks** and testing infrastructure at scale. * Are comfortable navigating complex distributed systems and making architectural trade-offs to improve testability. * Enjoy a "player-coach" style of leadership, driving technical roadmaps while remaining hands-on with code. * Are a Kotlin expert who thrives on solving ambiguous, cross-functional engineering challenges.

Job Description

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:

• The Quality Engineering team helps Airbnb build high-quality software efficiently. We enable Airbnb engineers to build highly testable systems. We own and continuously improve Airbnb’s test cases, automation coverage, test automation tools, environments, frameworks. We navigate Airbnb’s massive codebase identifying weak spots, and help design and implement testable fault-tolerant systems.

• As a global company and product, the tests, tools and frameworks that we build have to scale to the needs of both our external customers but also to the expectations of our internal stakeholders. Therefore, our mission is to ensure that Airbnb has the test coverage, tooling and frameworks necessary to assure that our product workflows deliver a seamless high quality experience for our customers.

• As a Senior Android Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by helping develop and maintain our automation coverage, test tools/environments/frameworks, writing and testing product/system code, participating in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guiding designs and code to improve its modularity and testability.

• You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions.

• Build, maintain, and support the quality of our product workflows by developing and executing automated tests, collaborating closely with product engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for new features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes.

• Build, maintain and support our platforms – testing infrastructure, applications, environments and tools using your expertise in distributed systems

• Help build out the team, cultivate innovation and growth by driving cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams

• Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence

• Scale distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution

• Work with cross-functional teams spanning design, product, data science, and research partners to drive engineering decisions and influence outcomes

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent

• 5+ years of mobile development experience, or 2+ years with a PhD in a fast paced, high growth tech environment

• Demonstrable knowledge in Kotlin, Java and Espresso

• Demonstrated expertise in developing testability and test automation frameworks and infrastructure for testing Android mobile applications at a large scale

• Experience developing or testing distributed systems

• Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams

• Hands-on technical leadership leading projects and defining roadmaps

• Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact

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.](https://careers.airbnb.com/) If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

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](mailto: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.

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
$191,000—$223,000 USD

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