Staff Software Engineer, Adaptive Risk Investigations

Details

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 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.

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product, operations, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to build high quality products and features
• Drive, lead, and contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch; review code and design docs, provide feedback on product specs and mocks
• 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 the ARI team’s roadmap and technical direction
• Identify opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of ARI services and lead their implementation
• Mentor other engineers in developing technical and collaboration skills
• Advocate and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry engineering experience
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Hands-on experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Experience with service-oriented architectures and developing large-scale distributed systems
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java, Ruby, Kotlin, etc.); familiarity with Scala a plus
• Experience with test driven development; familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery, and deployment
• Experience with platform architecture patterns and best practices; experience with building and leading infrastructure a plus
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus
• Experience with Salesforce or Redis is a plus
• Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus

Benefits

The role is US remote eligible with potential occasional work at Airbnb offices or offsites. Compensation includes base pay, bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Base pay range is $204,000–$255,000 USD depending on factors such as training, skills, experience, business needs, and market demands.

Location

This position is remote eligible within the United States but requires living in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Occasional onsite work or offsite attendance may be required as agreed with the manager.

Inclusion & Belonging

Airbnb promotes diversity and inclusion to foster innovation. They provide a disability inclusive application and interview process with accommodations available upon request.