Airbnb is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our elite Anti-Bots Engineering team and be a key player in safeguarding the Airbnb platform as a Senior Software Engineer. You'll design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge systems to keep bad actors at bay.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably backend-focused
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or a similar language
• Expertise in building and deploying distributed systems
• Familiarity with ML concepts and tools (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) is a plus
• Experience with big data technologies like Spark or Airflow is a plus
• Experience in a fast-paced, innovative environment
• Stellar analytical and problem-solving skills
• Top-notch communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to design and implement powerful machine learning pipelines for bot detection and mitigation
• Architect and build distributed ML services capable of handling massive data processing and model serving at scale
• Leverage your expertise to contribute to and improve existing tools within the Airbnb ML platform
• Uncover attack patterns through data analysis and develop features to enhance the effectiveness of ML models
• Design and implement countermeasures (backend systems or APIs) to thwart scraping attempts based on identified patterns

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data engineering or data analysis
• Experience building end-to-end ML systems
• Understanding of architectural patterns for large-scale applications