Senior Software Engineer, Safety

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety team, you will be working with data scientists, designers, product managers, analytics and customer service operations to innovate new ways we can detect and stop potential risky bookings or identify risk users by collaborating across team boundaries.

On this team, you must have the curiosity to dig deep into various end to end systems in order to understand how and where the safety risk occurs. Your curiosity will be rewarded with finding projects that have outsized impacts on minimizing safety incidents on the platform and protecting Airbnb users from bad actors.

A Typical Day: 

• Work with large scale back end systems to detect risks, using rules and connecting to productionalized machine learning models.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including machine learning engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for risk and mitigation.
• Building out tooling and automation for operations to more effectively reduce safety risks.
• Minimize good user impact while developing products to deter bad actors.
• Examples include: build party risk detection mechanism and prevent it from happening, identify and prevent human trafficking cases, building data pipelines for product analysis and machine learning, and reducing safety risk at scale.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of industry experience on building systems at scale, inclusive MS or  PhD in relevant fields
• Passion for building user-facing products or large backend systems.
• Experience in any of the following: Scala, Java, Python
• Ability to write high performance production quality code
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms.
• Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners.
• Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders such as legal and operations.
• Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.
• Experience with the large language models is a plus.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list . If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: [email protected]. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

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