# Senior Software Engineer -Payments

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/airbnb/jobs/7581839
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_06fc58d3-e57

## Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments AI/ML Foundation team. As a member of this team, you will design and own core platform components that power AI across Airbnb Payments.

The Payments AI/ML Foundation team builds the shared platforms, services, and guardrails that enable product and data teams across Airbnb Payments to deliver trustworthy, efficient, and scalable AI capabilities.

As a Senior Software Engineer on Payments AI/ML Foundation, you will:

- Design and own core platform components that power AI across Airbnb Payments

- Partner with product, infra, data science, and operations to translate ambiguous requirements into robust systems with clear SLAs

- Build tooling and automation that makes AI development safer and faster

- Raise the bar on reliability, performance, and governance for models and agents in production

A typical day for this role will involve envisioning, championing, and supporting the development of novel ML systems, product integrations, and performance optimizations to solve real-world problems.

You will work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for AI/ML models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact.

Hands-on productionize and operate AI/ML solution and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases.

Lead, mentor, challenge and grow enthusiastic, collaborative AI/ML culture within the organization.

Your expertise should include:

- A degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualification

- 7+ years of industry experience in backend/platform engineering (or equivalent), including ownership of production systems

- Strong programming skills in Python, plus solid data engineering foundations

- Good to have experience with AI frameworks (Langraph, Strand etc), orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow), and streaming/processing (Kafka/Spark/Ray)

- Proven track record building observability for AI systems (metrics/logging/traces), with automated alerting, dashboards, and SLO management

- Experience designing model governance and safety guardrails (prompt/version control, red-teaming, policy checks, approvals)

- Demonstrated ability to drive performance/cost optimizations (profiling, batching, caching, quantization, autoscaling) in high-traffic environments

- Practical familiarity with vector search/embedding pipelines (indexing strategies, consistency, reindexing, retention)

Our commitment to inclusion and 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- AI frameworks
- Orchestration
- Streaming/processing
- Observability
- Model governance
- Performance/cost optimizations
- Vector search/embedding pipelines