Senior Staff Backend Software Engineer, GraphQL at Airbnb

You're a senior backend and platform engineer with over 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, and a proven track record guiding multi-year technical roadmaps. You have deep expertise in GraphQL, API gateways, and schema design. **What makes it worth a look...** This full-time, fully remote role at Airbnb offers a salary of $244,000 - $305,000 per year. You'll be working on the Viaduct platform, a unified data access layer connecting most of the company's online data, which has also been released as an open-source project. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have 12+ years of backend & platform engineering experience with distributed systems. * Possess deep expertise in GraphQL, API gateways, and schema design/federation. * Are comfortable with modern languages like Kotlin/Java and AI-assisted development workflows. * Have hands-on experience building developer experience and tooling for internal developers.