Airbnb · 4 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Safety
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$191K/yr - $223K/yr
5+ years expAirbnb is a global hospitality company that connects hosts and guests for unique stays and experiences. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety team, you will work with cross-functional partners to innovate ways to detect and mitigate risks associated with bookings and user behavior.
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Responsibilities
Work with large scale back end systems to detect risks, using rules and connecting to productionalized machine learning models
Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including machine learning engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for risk and mitigation
Building out tooling and automation for operations to more effectively reduce safety risks
Minimize good user impact while developing products to deter bad actors
Examples include: build party risk detection mechanism and prevent it from happening, identify and prevent human trafficking cases, building data pipelines for product analysis and machine learning, and reducing safety risk at scale
Qualification
Required
5+ years of industry experience on building systems at scale, inclusive MS or PhD in relevant fields
Passion for building user-facing products or large backend systems
Experience in any of the following: Scala, Java, Python
Ability to write high performance production quality code
Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, such as well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, and efficient algorithms
Experience or desire to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams with design, product, data science, and research partners
Ability to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders such as legal and operations
Preferred
Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus
Experience with the large language models is a plus
Benefits
Bonus
Equity
Benefits
Employee Travel Credits
Company
Airbnb
Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.44BKey Investors
Silver Lake,Sixth StreetVERSO CapitalCapitalG,TCV
2020-12-10IPO
2020-04-14Debt Financing· $1B
2020-04-06Private Equity· $1B
Leadership Team
Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO
Nathan Blecharczyk
Co-founder / Chief Strategy Officer
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