Airbnb
Staff Software Engineer, iOS Platform
$212K–$265K
United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 9+ years of industry experience in software development.
About the job
Drive projects and improve iOS platform tooling to make AI agents more effective across Airbnb’s software development workflows.
What you'll do
- Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity with team members and cross-functional partners.
- Lead roadmap projects and deliver high-quality results.
- Improve existing frameworks and tooling.
What they ask for
- Experience building reliable developer tooling in Go.
- Experience working with Ruby and maintaining or improving existing tooling.
- Experience leveraging Agentic AI to improve software workflows and drive large-scale migrations; experience improving agent execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.
- Experience with medium- to large-scale codebases and iOS development in Swift, including applications, libraries, and frameworks.
Nice to have
- Experience designing and developing build systems (e.g. Bazel).
Pay
$212,000 — $265,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Ruby, Swift, Bazel
AI focus
Improve AI agents’ effectiveness across software development workflows by providing tools and optimizing execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality; use Agentic AI to improve workflows and drive large-scale migrations.
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