Airbnb Staff Software Engineer Emerging Defenses 

United States 

862626996

A Typical Day:

As a staff engineer in Trust, your contributions will span a variety of shapes:

• Build a marketplace of products that ensure safety and privacy of guests and hosts.
• Provide technical vision and support other engineers' growth.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners, including software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and operations to identify opportunities for business impact, and refine and prioritize requirements for fraud detection and mitigation.
• Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate machine learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases.
• Enhance and extend risk investigation tools to enable efficient decision-making on behaviors that could result in physical safety or property damage incidents.

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
• Exposure to ML or interest in ML

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

Offices: United States