Software Engineer, Trust

The Community You Will Join:

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 work in a team of talented software engineers to help us build intuitive & delightful experiences, strengthen our current offerings, and deliver new products to strengthen our Trust defenses. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and delivering flexible, efficient and scalable solutions to stay on top of the ever evolving attack vectors and 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:

• Implement, and operate resilient and scalable distributed systems


• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact.


• Hands-on prototype, develop, productionize, and test solutions and defenses to existing and emerging fraud trends.


• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning


• Be part of an impactful team working on scaling distributed applications in a highly-available 24x7 environment, make architectural trade-offs applying design patterns and disciplined execution


• Partner with other engineering teams in Airbnb to serve our users holistically.

Your Expertise:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience


• 3-5 years industry experience


• Strong hands on coding, data structures and algorithm experience using Java or Kotlin


• Exposure to architectural patterns of a high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, data pipelines


• Experience in building and scaling high-quality and high-traffic products (or systems).


• Ability to evaluate technical approaches and design product solutions to solve real-world problems.


• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product and data science partners


• Passionate about AI with experience and strong grasp of current trends in Generative AI, LLMs, and related technologies.


• Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.