Description
We are seeking a senior software engineer to join our Trust Platform team. As a member of this team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing large-scale systems to detect and mitigate fraud across our entire platform.
The Trust Platform team is responsible for protecting our community and platform from fraud while also ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards. We constantly work to fight against online fraud (such as monetary loss, compromised accounts, spam and scam in messages, fake inventory, etc.) as well as offline fraud (theft, property damage, personal safety, etc.).
As a senior software engineer on this team, 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.
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.
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 platform architecture patterns and best practices.
- Hands on experience leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- Experience with the Trust and Risk domain.
- 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. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process.