Senior Software Engineer

Airbnb
Summary
Join Airbnb's Trust Engineering team and design large-scale systems to detect and mitigate fraud across the platform. You will build highly available, real-time risk detection services, collaborating with product, data science, and operations teams. A typical day involves designing, implementing, and operating scalable systems, building platform capabilities to combat fraud, providing input on the team roadmap, identifying opportunities for improvement, mentoring engineers, and advocating for improved engineering processes. This US-remote eligible position requires 5-9+ years of experience, a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, and proficiency in backend languages. The role offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
Requirements
- 5-9+ years of industry experience
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java/Ruby/Kotlin etc)
- Experience with service-oriented architectures and developing large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with the Trust and Risk domain
- Hands on experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
- Experience with platform architecture patterns and best practices
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate resilient and scalable distributed systems
- Build and evolve platform capabilities to tackle the changing landscape of fraud attacks by collaborating with engineering teams in Airbnb’s Trust, Payment and CSP organizations
- Provide critical input in Trust Platform’s team roadmap and technical direction
- Identify opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Trust Platform services and drive their implementation
- Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
- Advocate and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Scala
- Experience with building and leading infrastructure
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Benefits
- Employee Travel Credits