Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Privacy 

United States 

933626372

The Community You Will Join:

Data Classification & Compliance at Scale

Handling massive amounts of user data across complex, evolving systems requires robust data classification, governance, and access control mechanisms. We develop scalable systems to automate data tagging, enforce retention policies, and detect policy violations in real time, ensuring compliance without slowing down innovation.

User Consent & Data Subject Rights

The Difference You Will Make:

Your day-to-day responsibilities includes:

• Provide thought leadership, define strategy, influence cross functional collaboration and drive architectural decisions to enable Privacy by Design into all engineering & product development processes at Airbnb.
• Lead multi-team technical initiatives, and work cross-functionally to identify opportunities for business impact, refine, and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software & ML engineers, product partners, legal and privacy experts to integrate cutting-edge privacy safeguards into Airbnb’s AI/ML pipelines and data & service infrastructure. Your work will ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks while enabling responsible data practice and AI development at scale.
• Design, prototype, and productionalize the next-generation privacy infrastructure, especially for AI/ML privacy protection measures.
• Design and build foundational investments in data discovery, classification, purpose of processing mapping, lineage, usage, retention, policy enforcement, etc from a Privacy perspective, especially for AI/ML practices.

Your Expertise:

Education & Experience:

• 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

Leadership & Collaboration:

• 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

Privacy Experience:

• Familiarity with AI/ML governance and ability to work with cross-functional teams to integrate privacy safeguards into AI/ML pipelines
• Experience with data anonymization, deidentification, synthetic data generation, and other privacy-preserving machine learning techniques
• Experience designing privacy-aware AI/ML models, ensuring compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and other regulatory frameworks.
• Experience with data discovery, classification, and lineage

Offices: United States