Staff Software Engineer

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 other engineers, and advocating for improved engineering processes. This role requires extensive experience in engineering and leadership, proficiency in backend languages, and familiarity with various development methodologies. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work. Compensation includes a competitive salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and employee travel credits.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry engineering experience
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Hands on experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Experience with service-oriented architectures and developing large-scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java/Ruby/Kotlin etc)
• Experience with test driven development, familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment
• 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 is a plus
• Experience with building and leading infrastructure is a plus
• Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits