Airbnb: Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments — Remote - Bengaluru, India

About Airbnb

Airbnb operates an online marketplace for stays and experiences. Hosts list rooms, homes and other spaces, and guests search, book and pay for them through the platform, with experiences and long-term stays among the offered formats. The company is based in San Francisco and serves hosts and guests across many countries, and its employer feed lists engineering, product and support roles.

The position and its setting

Airbnb lists Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments in Remote - Bengaluru, India, under reference 7525479. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Software Engineering
• Employer listing date: 9 January 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Collaboration: with other senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture that enables the company’s future vision
• Establishment: a technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch reliable, performant, and scalable solutions
• Be a critic for existing and new technologies, providing a balanced view of the technology landscape and nurture a culture of sustainable innovation
• Collaboration: with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver high-quality products
• Leadership: multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems
• Leadership: conversations that align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities
• Uplevel engineering quality through design/code reviews, mentorship, and hands-on implementation
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers through design reviews, code walkthroughs, and knowledge-sharing sessions, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning
• Your Expertise:
• 15+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated technical leadership: hands on experience leading project teams, setting technical direction and strategy, prototyping to iterate ideas, and working cross functionally with Product, Design and Operations teams
• Communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners, experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership
• Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Experience building, leading, and architecting production systems or features with broad impact
• Experience: defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• This position is India - Remote (Eligible anywhere within India)
• The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager
• 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
• Reasonable Accommodations: We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities
• If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role
• A Note on Recruiting Scams: Scammers sometimes pose as Airbnb recruiters to get money or personal information from candidates
• A few things that will always be true for Airbnb’s hiring process: our open roles are posted on Airbnb’s Career’s Page at careers.airbnb.com, and our recruiters correspond only from @ airbnb.com or @ ext.airbnb.com email addresses
• Our recruiters will never ask for your Social Security number, bank account details, passport, or payment app information while you are interviewing
• We’ll also never ask you to pay a fee, send money, deposit or cash a check, or purchase work-related equipment (such as a company laptop) during the interview process
• We encourage candidates to remain vigilant of these recruiting scams and not share sensitive information if you do not believe an individual is actually affiliated with Airbnb
• Work arrangement: Remote

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments vacancy is not an offer for reference 7525479; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

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How to apply to Airbnb

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Airbnb posting below and match the title and reference 7525479.

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Relevant skills

• AI
• recruitment
• sustainability
• stakeholder management
• communication