Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Airbnb's Trust Engineering team as a highly experienced software engineer to build and enhance trust and safety features. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and operate scalable systems to combat fraud and improve platform security. This role requires extensive experience in software engineering, leadership, and distributed systems. You will contribute to the technical vision, mentor other engineers, and participate in improving Airbnb's engineering processes. 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

• Work cross-functionally with product, operations, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build high quality products and features
• Drive, lead, and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks
• 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 the ARI team’s roadmap and technical direction
• Identify opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of ARI 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 GraphQL is a plus
• Experience with Salesforce or Redis is a plus
• Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits