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Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services and APIs that consistently enforce identity and privacy rules.
- Develop tooling and processes for safe, large-scale migrations away from legacy identity patterns.
- Define and evolve context-scoped authorization logic and reason through access-control edge cases.
- Partner with teams building messaging, trips, profile, and other product systems.
- Participate in design and code reviews and improve correctness across the codebase.
- Debug and resolve production issues through structured root-cause analysis.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
- Strong fundamentals in service-oriented architecture, API design, and data modeling.
- Proficiency in Java and/or Kotlin and comfort working in a microservices environment with RPC frameworks, service IDLs, and dependency injection.
- Experience designing systems where correctness and authorization are first-class concerns.
- Track record of shipping migrations or infrastructure changes used by other teams, with attention to backward compatibility and rollout safety.
- Strong written communication and ability to document problems, root causes, trade-offs, and proposed solutions.
- Ability to turn ambiguous privacy or identity requirements into concrete technical designs.
Benefits
- US remote-eligible position, with occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites as agreed with the manager.
- Employee must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity; eligibility varies by employing Airbnb entity.
- Airbnb provides disability accommodations during the application 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.