Staff Software Engineer, Airbnb
Fraud Prevention & Safety
$204-259k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$204-259k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of industry engineering experience
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Strong programming (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent) and data engineering skills
- Hands on experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
- Exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale software applications (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms, models)
- Experience with test driven development, familiar with A/B testing, incremental delivery and deployment
- Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus
- Experience with hands on machine learning model development is a plus
What the job involves
- Everyone at Airbnb thinks about trust, but our team obsesses over it daily
- At the core of trust is safety, and thus we spend a significant amount of our time and energy keeping the community safe
- The Fraud prevention & Safety team is responsible for detecting and mitigating fraud and safety issues while ensuring our hosts, guests, homes, and experiences meet our high standards
- We constantly work to fight against online fraud (such as monetary loss, compromised accounts, spam and scam in messages, fake inventory, etc.) as well as offline fraud (theft, property damage, personal safety, etc.)
- We also work on onboarding and screening of users, and think about complex topics like identity and reputation to ensure that every interaction with Airbnb helps build trust in us and our community
- Fraud prevention & Safety is responsible for the technology vision and development of risk detection and mitigation across the user journey on Airbnb
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will partner closely with our senior leaders across the broader technical organization
- You will be deeply involved in building highly available and real-time risk detection services in close collaboration with product, data science and operations teams to understand ever evolving attack vectors and to make Airbnb the most safe and trusted community
- All individual contributors at Airbnb are Software Engineers which means we expect you to be hands on and contribute code
- Design, implement, and operate resilient and scalable distributed systems
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including software engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for machine learning models, drive engineering decisions, and quantify impact
- Work closely with trust defense and platform teams to tackle the changing landscape of fraud attacks
- Provide critical input in the Trust team’s roadmap and technical direction
- Identify opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, efficiency, and efficacy of our defenses and drive their implementation
- Mentor other engineers in developing their technical and collaboration skills
- Advocate and participate in efforts to advance Airbnb’s engineering processes and technical foundations
- Hands-on develop, productionize, and operate Machine Learning models and pipelines at scale, including both batch and real-time use cases
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company values
- Champion the Mission: We’re united with our community to create a world where anyone can belong anywhere
- Be a Host: We're caring, open, and encouraging to everyone we work with
- Embrace the Adventure: We’re driven by curiosity, optimism, and the belief that every person can grow
- Be a Cereal Entrepreneur: We’re determined and creative in transforming our bold ambitions into reality
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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