Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust
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AirbnbTechnology/Trust Engineering
US - Remote Eligible. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.Full-TimeStaff
Salary$248,000 — $310,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Required Skills
- JavaKotlinScalaDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 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 and influencing without relying on formal authority.
- Exceptional communication skills, effective in white-boarding and presenting strategy to executives.
- Obsessed with reliability: deep experience building and improving observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns.
- Hands-on with modern languages (e.g., Kotlin/Java/Scala).
- Experience evaluating and introducing new technologies including AI-assisted development workflows.
- Experience building developer experience & tooling is a plus.
- Experience in the Trust and Risk domain is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the Trust Platform, driving the architectural direction for foundational systems.
- Dive deep into Trust Platform components, build system and performance tooling, and identify cross-cutting opportunities to elevate technical quality and operational excellence.
- Champion an AI-first engineering approach, using LLM-powered agents to generate and iterate on code.
- Partner with technical leaders, product managers, operations, data scientists, and Trust defense teams to define platform capabilities.
- Lead and mentor engineers across teams, raising the technical bar and developing the next generation of technical leaders.
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