[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Payments Infrastructure

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global hospitality company that connects hosts and guests to create unique travel experiences. The Senior Software Engineer for Payments Infrastructure will own critical infrastructure areas, ensuring the reliability and scalability of payment systems while collaborating with various teams to enhance payment processes. Responsibilities • Own the health and evolution of Payments testing and staging ecosystems • Lead complex incident triage and guide cross-team mitigation in test environments • Set technical direction for test process, test infrastructure, data strategy, and observability • Partner with senior engineers, QE, and Infra on org-wide reliability initiatives • Mentor engineers and raise the bar for Payments quality Skills • 7+ years of software engineering experience in a fast-paced, high-scale environment • Strong coding skills in Java, Python, or Scala • Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems end to end • Deep understanding of debugging complex production and non-production failures • Strong sense of ownership for availability, reliability, and system correctness • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams • Experience building testing infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and testing environments • Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (MySQL, TiDB/CockroachDB, Redis, etc.) • Familiarity with AWS and large-scale cloud deployments • Experience with payments, financial systems, or regulated environments Benefits • Bonus • Equity • Benefits • Employee Travel Credits Company Overview • Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 234 in 2025, 176 in 2024, 160 in 2023, 270 in 2022, 250 in 2021, 274 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job