Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Secure Development Engineering 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you'll architect and implement security solutions that protect millions of users while empowering thousands of developers. You'll be at the forefront of creating a security-first engineering culture, building tools and frameworks that make secure development the path of least resistance. We're building the next generation of security-first development tools and practices that will shape the future of secure software engineering.

A Typical Day:

Here are a few things you’ll do in this role:

• Lead the design, development, launch, and operation of scalable and reusable solutions that address systemic security issues across teams, showcasing your leadership and expertise.
• Drive technical security innovation by developing new coding standards for the team and organization, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provide input and influence architectural decisions to ensure security, scalability, quality and resilience in major product features and platform services.
• Take a hands-on role in designing and implementing secure software.
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure engineers to build performant, developer-friendly solutions that integrate security into developer tools, libraries, and frameworks.
• Support secure development strategies, tooling, and product-specific security features with engineering teams to help detect and prevent diverse security issues.
• Build and maintain automation frameworks to validate deployed software against security requirements.

Your Expertise:

The following are some examples of profiles that are relevant to us. If a subset of these applies to you, please consider applying. We are looking to build a team of both security experience and software engineering generalists.

• 5+ years of software development in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Kotlin, Golang, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure software systems.
• Thorough understanding of secure development methodologies and best practices.
• Experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and contributing to open-source tools.
• Experience with static and/or dynamic analysis.
• Experience building secure-by-default libraries or frameworks.
• Experience securing cloud infrastructure, particularly in AWS.
• Experience with mobile or web application security is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform and HCL is a plus.
• Experience building developer tools and infrastructure is a plus.

Offices: United States