Airbnb Senior Software Engineer Anti-Bots engineering 

United States 

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The Difference You Will Make:

• Become a Guardian of Platform: Your work will directly contribute to a safer and more reliable Airbnb experience for millions of users.
• Lead the Charge Against Scraping: Develop innovative solutions to combat fraudulent activity and data scraping, protecting both hosts and guests.
• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Continuously identify and mitigate emerging bot threats, ensuring the platform remains secure.

A Typical Day:

• Partner with ML engineers and data scientists to design and implement powerful machine learning pipelines for bot detection and mitigation.
• Architect and build distributed ML services capable of handling massive data processing and model serving at scale.
• Leverage your expertise to contribute to and improve existing tools within the Airbnb ML platform.
• Uncover attack patterns through data analysis and develop features to enhance the effectiveness of ML models.
• Design and implement countermeasures (backend systems or APIs) to thwart scraping attempts based on identified patterns.

Your Expertise:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably backend-focused.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or a similar language.
• Expertise in building and deploying distributed systems.
• Familiarity with ML concepts and tools (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) is a plus.
• Experience with big data technologies like Spark or Airflow is a plus.
• Experience in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Stellar analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Top-notch communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with data engineering or data analysis.
• Experience building end-to-end ML systems.
• Understanding of architectural patterns for large-scale applications