Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust

🕒 April 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $248k - $310k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Airbnb

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 2007

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2020-12

B2C • eCommerce • Hospitality

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.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the Trust Platform, driving the architectural direction for foundational systems that enable scalable, high-quality fraud, safety, and trust decisioning across Airbnb, and are broadly leveraged across tech organizations • Dive deep into Trust Platform components, build system and performance tooling, and identify cross-cutting opportunities to elevate technical quality, operational excellence, and developer delight. • Champion an AI-first engineering approach, using LLM-powered agents to generate and iterate on code while you focus on problem-solving, system design, and quality oversight. • Partner with technical leaders, product managers, operations, data scientists, and Trust defense & ML teams to define and drive platform capabilities, tackle evolving fraud threats, and deliver measurable business impact • Lead and mentor engineers across teams, raising the technical bar and developing the next generation of technical leaders within the trust engineering ecosystem.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of backend & platform engineering designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale. • BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience • Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps: aligning long-term platform vision with day-to-day execution across multiple sub-teams, prototyping to iterate on ideas, and influencing without relying on formal authority. • Exceptional communication skills, equally effective white-boarding with senior ICs, partnering with cross-functional leads (Product, Design, Data Science), and presenting strategy to executives and the broader engineering community. • Obsessed with reliability: deep experience building and improving observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns (circuit breakers, graceful degradation, chaos testing) to keep mission-critical systems running at the highest bar. • Hands-on with modern languages (e.g., Kotlin/Java/Scala) and comfortable evaluating and introducing new technologies including AI-assisted development workflows (LLMs, code generation). • Experience building developer experience & tooling is a plus, with a mindset of treating internal developers as customers and championing self-service, documentation, and delightful DX. • Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

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