Senior Systems Engineer, BizTech Integrations

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.

Senior Systems Engineer_BizTech Integrations

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 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:

• Airbnb is a company with a mission to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere, achieved through a unified team adhering to core values. The BizTech department plays a crucial role in this mission by providing reliable internal systems, enterprise technologies, innovative products, and technical support, fostering an empowered and inclusive progress. They also create technical breakthroughs and strategies that redefine the concept of belonging anywhere, delivering value to both the business and its people.
• The Integrations team of BizTech manages integrations and APIs across various SaaS products and internal systems. A Senior Systems Engineer within this team focuses on building and managing automations, APIs and integrations, and managing Integration platforms. They work closely with fellow Integrations team members, partner teams and engineering teams to integrate SaaS products and build custom solutions.

The Difference You Will Make:

As an Integration Engineer at Airbnb, you play a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing our Integrations as a paved path, API ecosystem and critical SaaS integrations across the enterprise. Working alongside stakeholders from various departments, you ensure that data flows seamlessly and synchronously between different applications, facilitating automated and world-class integrations. Together with your team, you manage platforms like MuleSoft, Tray, and bespoke in-house solutions on Java, mentoring junior engineers in crafting reliable integrations and services. Your mission is to architect and implement the future of system integrations at Airbnb, ensuring they can scale with our growth. You will be responsible for a wide array of essential integrations, overseeing multiple projects and sharing responsibility for our integration landscape with your team. You’re expected to be comfortable with ambiguity,  independently finding solutions, and engaging in discussions to weigh and articulate the pros and cons of various problem-solving strategies. Ready to tackle complex challenges head-on, you'll play a key role in evolving our integration strategy, setting new standards for excellence and innovation.

A Typical Day:

• Together with the team, take ownership of a diverse catalog of system integrations and integration platforms.
• Architect and build integrations, backend services, AI bots, MCP servers and APIs to connect various systems and automate processes.
• Build, Rollout and own framework for developers to be able to build and deploy backend services and APIs through configuration.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand their pain points, requirements, impact, and timelines, and present them with design and effort analysis.
• Collaborate within your team to review the designs and code of team members, and to have your design and code reviewed, giving and receiving feedback.
• Support the production operations of the integrations.
• Document designs and runbooks, and Participate in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Your Expertise:

• 8+ years of industry experience including 5+ years in Java, 3+ years in SQL, 1+ years on Integration platform.
• Excited to learn and build on more tools the team uses especially MuleSoft integration platform.
• Full life cycle implementation experience from requirements gathering/analysis to Go-Live and Post production support.
• Experience in building Platforms and Frameworks. Expert in building services in Java and Spring.
• Expertise in designing and implementing integrations and APIs, adept at developing Java programs from the ground up, experienced in utilizing both REST and SOAP APIs, and skilled in working with relational databases alongside strong SQL proficiency.
• Comfortable tackling ambiguous problems, unblocking oneself, discussing problem-solving approaches, and articulating trade-offs.
• Experience in securing data; understands PGP, SSH, OAuth, HTTPS, SFTP
• Experience with Github version control, CI/CD, AWS System Operations and with with Agile development
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and eager to take accountability and ownership of systems, integrations and processes.
• Possesses strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with messaging infrastructure, data streaming and storage solutions.
• Experience working with multi threaded applications and syncing online systems
• Experience on Integration platforms such as MuleSoft is a big plus.
• Experience with AWS and Infrastructure deploy tools such as Chef and Terraform is a big plus
• Experience building MCP servers, AI agents and bots is a big plus.

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.

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 shown below is annualized, is inclusive of allowances and is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentives, one or more equity programs, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.  

India Pay Range₹3,150,000—₹4,500,000 INR