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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust

1 hour, 57 minutes ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
Java Kotlin LLM Scala
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Airbnb

Airbnb is the world's largest community-driven hospitality company, offering homes and experiences in 191 countries. It is an online marketplace connecting people to unique accommodations and experiences globally.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
5K-10K
Founded 2008
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Description

  • Define and execute the long-term vision and technical strategy for the Trust Platform.
  • Drive the architectural direction for foundational systems that support fraud, safety, and trust decisioning at scale.
  • Build system and performance tooling and improve operational excellence across the platform.
  • Identify cross-cutting opportunities to improve technical quality, resilience, and developer experience.
  • Partner with technical leaders, product managers, operations, data scientists, and Trust defense and ML teams to deliver platform capabilities.
  • Tackle evolving fraud threats and deliver measurable business impact through platform work.
  • Lead and mentor engineers across teams and help develop future technical leaders.
  • Contribute code directly as a hands-on senior individual contributor.
  • Collaborate across the broader technical organization to design, execute, and deliver the roadmap.
  • Use AI-assisted development workflows, including LLM-powered agents, to support coding and iteration.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of backend and platform engineering experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
  • BS, MS, or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps across multiple sub-teams.
  • Experience prototyping ideas and iterating on technical solutions.
  • Ability to influence without formal authority.
  • Exceptional communication skills for technical whiteboarding, cross-functional partnership, and executive presentations.
  • Deep experience with observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and chaos testing.
  • Hands-on experience with modern languages such as Kotlin, Java, or Scala.
  • Comfort with evaluating and introducing new technologies, including AI-assisted development workflows and code generation.
  • Experience building developer experience and tooling is a plus, including self-service and documentation.
  • Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.

Benefits

  • US remote eligible role.
  • Occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with your manager.
  • Base salary range of $248,000 to $310,000 USD.
  • Eligible for bonus.
  • Eligible for equity.
  • Eligible for benefits.
  • Eligible for Employee Travel Credits.

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