Senior Software Engineer - Trust Platform

Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily. At the core of trust is safety, and thus we spend a significant amount of our time and energy keeping the community safe. The Trust 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.). We also work on onboarding and screening of users, and think about complex topics like identity and reputation to ensure that every interaction with Airbnb helps build trust in us and our community. Trust Engineering is responsible for the technology vision and development of a complex stack that runs on every key interaction on the platform.

The Difference You Will Make:

As part of the Trust Engineering team, you will be in charge of designing large scale systems to detect and mitigate fraud across our entire platform. 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. There are still many unsolved problems to tackle in both online and offline risk, and we're looking for talented engineers to solve these challenges with us.

A Typical Day:

• 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.

• 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.