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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust

Airbnb· Trust
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Remote$248k - $310kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior technical individual contributor focused on designing, executing, and delivering a Trust engineering roadmap to enable scalable fraud, safety, and trust decisioning across Airbnb. Hands-on IC expected to code and contribute while mentoring others and aligning multi-team efforts.

Responsibilities

  • - Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the Trust Platform, driving architectural direction for foundational systems enabling scalable, high-quality fraud, safety, and trust decisioning across Airbnb
  • - Dive deep into Trust Platform components, build system and performance tooling, and identify cross-cutting opportunities to elevate technical quality, operational excellence, and developer delight
  • - Champion an AI-first engineering approach, using LLM-powered agents to generate and iterate on code while focusing on problem-solving, system design, and quality oversight
  • - Partner with technical leaders, product managers, operations, data scientists, and Trust defense & ML teams to define and drive platform capabilities, tackle evolving fraud threats, and deliver measurable business impact
  • - Lead and mentor engineers across teams, raising the technical bar and developing the next generation of technical leaders within the trust engineering ecosystem

Qualifications

  • - 12+ years of backend & platform engineering designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale
  • - BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • - Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps: aligning long-term platform vision with day-to-day execution across multiple sub-teams, prototyping to iterate on ideas, and influencing without relying on formal authority
  • - Exceptional communication skills, capable of white-boarding with senior ICs, partnering with cross-functional leads, and presenting strategy to executives
  • - Obsessed with reliability: experience with observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns
  • - Hands-on with modern languages (e.g., Kotlin/Java/Scala) and evaluating new technologies including AI-assisted development workflows (LLMs, code generation)
  • - Experience building developer experience & tooling is a plus
  • - Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is a plus

Skills

Required:Backend & Platform EngineeringCommunication & LeadershipSystem Architecture & Roadmapping
Nice to have:AI-assisted development

Benefits

  • Base pay range: $248,000—$310,000 USD per year
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Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.

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