Senior Software Engineer, Trust Platform

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 4 million Hosts who have welcomed more than 1 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

The Community You Will Join: 

Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. The Trust team is responsible for protecting our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. Trust Platform is responsible for foundational systems that power the detection and mitigation of fraud at scale across Airbnb, such as the rules engine, friction framework, and the vendor API gateway, and supports one of the highest throughput systems across the company. The team works closely with the Trust defense teams to tackle the changing landscape of fraud attacks, and build platform features to enable Trust product teams to quickly build frictions, rules, and enforcement tools for agents.

The Difference You Will Make:

As part of the Trust Engineering team, you will be in charge of designing large scale systems to detect and mitigate fraud across our entire platform. You will be deeply involved in building highly available and real-time risk detection services in close collaboration with product, data science and operations teams to understand ever evolving attack vectors and to make Airbnb the most safe and trusted community. There are still many unsolved problems to tackle in both online and offline risk, and we're looking for talented engineers to solve these challenges with us.

A Typical Day: 

• 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.

Your Expertise:

• 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). Familiarity with Scala is a plus.
• 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.  Experience with building and leading infrastructure is a plus.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

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