3 hours ago
Base Salary
$248k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term vision, strategy, and architectural direction for the Trust Platform.
- Build and improve foundational systems supporting scalable fraud, safety, and trust decisioning across Airbnb.
- Develop build systems, performance tooling, observability, SLOs, incident response, resilience patterns, and developer experience tooling.
- Use AI-assisted development workflows, including LLM-powered agents, while maintaining system design and code-quality oversight.
- Partner with technical leaders, product managers, operations, data scientists, and Trust defense and ML teams on platform capabilities and fraud threats.
- Lead and mentor engineers across teams and raise the technical bar across the trust engineering organization.
Requirements
- 12+ years of backend and platform engineering experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps across multiple sub-teams and influencing without formal authority.
- Exceptional communication skills with senior engineers, cross-functional leaders, executives, and broader engineering communities.
- Deep experience with observability, SLOs, incident response, resilience patterns, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and chaos testing.
- Hands-on experience with modern languages such as Kotlin, Java, or Scala.
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, including LLMs and code generation.
- Experience building developer experience and tooling is preferred.
- Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is preferred.
Benefits
- US remote-eligible position with occasional Airbnb office or offsite attendance as agreed with the manager; employees must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.
- Airbnb provides reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment and interview process.
About Airbnb
Airbnb operates a global online marketplace that connects hosts offering homes, rooms, and unique properties with travelers seeking short-term stays and experiences. The company earns revenue primarily through service fees on bookings; founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ABNB) with over 5 million hosts and guest arrivals recorded in nearly every country.