The Community You Will Join
At Airbnb, the Trust team is dedicated to protecting our community and platform from fraud while ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. The Trust Platform is responsible for foundational systems that power the detection and mitigation of fraud at scale, such as the rules engine, friction framework, and the vendor API gateway, supporting one of the highest throughput systems across the company.
The Difference You Will Make
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Trust Engineering team, you will design large-scale systems to detect and mitigate fraud across our entire platform. You will build 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.
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
- Collaborate 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.
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.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Remote work eligible
- Equity options
- Employee travel credits
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