Airbnb
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust
$248K–$310K
Remote - US +1 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Location
- Remote - US
United States - Experience
- 12+ years
- Education
- BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
About the job
Leads the technical vision and hands-on development of Airbnb’s Trust Platform, building scalable systems for fraud, safety, and trust decisioning.
What you'll do
- Set platform strategy and architecture, and improve system quality, reliability, performance, and developer tooling.
- Partner across engineering, product, operations, data science, and Trust teams to deliver platform capabilities against evolving fraud threats.
- Lead and mentor engineers across teams while contributing code.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of backend and platform engineering designing, building, and operating mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
- Experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps across multiple sub-teams and influencing without formal authority.
- Deep experience with observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns for mission-critical systems.
- Hands-on experience with modern languages such as Kotlin, Java, or Scala.
Nice to have
- Experience building developer experience and tooling.
- Experience in the Trust and Risk domain.
Pay
$248,000 — $310,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kotlin, Java, Scala, LLMs
AI focus
Champion AI-first engineering by using LLM-powered agents for code generation and iteration, and evaluating AI-assisted development workflows.
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