# Staff Software Engineer, Passport & Commerce (Backend) at Airbnb

- Company: Airbnb
- What the company does: Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: http://www.airbnb.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://careers.airbnb.com/positions/8130817?gh_jid=8130817
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/airbnb-staff-software-engineer-passport-and-commerce-backend/

## About the role

You'll work closely with Payments and Wallet engineering, Identity & Privacy, Profile & Community, and Guest & Host product, design, and data science partners as we stand up this team's roadmap and technical foundations.

## What they're looking for

- Design and evolve the core services and data models that track account state, eligibility, and entitlements across millions of accounts
- Partner with product and design to translate new product concepts into scalable, extensible technical designs
- Collaborate with Payments and Wallet engineering to ensure credits, discounts, and host-funded programs settle correctly end-to-end
- Set technical direction and lead design reviews across a growing team, mentoring engineers and raising the bar on system design
- Drive cross-team architecture decisions with Identity & Privacy and Profile & Community teams to keep account state consistent with Airbnb's broader Passport model
- Identify and resolve reliability, scalability, and data-integrity risks before they affect guests or hosts

Tags: Software Engineering