Staff Software Engineer - Emerging Defenses

February 28

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Airbnb is a global online marketplace that connects people looking for accommodation with hosts offering unique and diverse lodging options, often in residential properties. Users can book spaces ranging from one-bedroom apartments to entire homes and boutique hotels. Airbnb also offers experiences, allowing guests to book activities hosted by locals, providing an authentic travel experience.

travel accommodations • collaborative economy • hospitality

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

📋 Description

• Your work on the Emerging Defenses team will directly provide safety and privacy to Airbnb users worldwide. • You will be leading a team of engineers and work cross-functionally building toward the safest communication platform. • You will be involved in core company launches and build for the future of safe communication regardless of medium: phone, VoIP, SMS, in-app chat, and video conferencing. • It will bring privacy and safety to guests and hosts while keeping fraudsters off of the platform. • As a staff engineer in Trust, your contributions will span a variety of shapes: Build a marketplace of products that ensure safety and privacy of guests and hosts. • Provide technical vision and support other engineers' growth. • Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners, including software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and operations to identify opportunities for business impact, and refine and prioritize requirements for fraud detection and mitigation. • Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate machine learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases. • Enhance and extend risk investigation tools to enable efficient decision-making on behaviors that could result in physical safety or property damage incidents.

🎯 Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related field (or equivalent industry experience) • 10+ years of experience in software engineering in a fast-paced tech environment • Strong programming skills (Java / Scala / Python / C++ or equivalent) with deep expertise in architectural patterns and designing scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems in a service-oriented architecture • Exposure to ML or interest in ML • Proven experience partnering with cross-functional leaders to define product/technical strategy and drive alignment • Experience leading large-scale, multi-team, multi-platform projects that require extensive collaboration, influencing and decision-making capabilities • Strong technical leadership with the ability to mentor engineers and set technical direction for the team • Desire to work collaboratively with cross-functional partners, such as design, product, data science, infrastructure, policy, operations, and legal partners • Passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.