Senior Software Engineer, Trust & Safety

The Community You Will Join:

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 Trust team is responsible for protecting our community and platform from fraud while also 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. Trust Engineering is responsible for the technology vision and development of a complex stack that runs on every key interaction on the platform.

The Difference You Will Make:

As part of the Trust Engineering team, you will work in a team of talented software engineers to help us build intuitive & delightful experiences, strengthen our current offerings, and deliver new products to strengthen our Trust defenses. You will play a significant role in shaping the technical vision and delivering flexible, efficient and scalable solutions to stay on top of the ever evolving attack vectors and make Airbnb the most safe and trusted community. There are still many unsolved problems to tackle in both online and offline risk, and we're looking for talented engineers to solve these challenges with us.

A Typical Day:

• Collaborate closely with various Trust engineering teams, taking ownership of the frontend experiences.
• Participate in all phases of software development including architecture/design,
• implementation and testing.
• Support teammates in enabling code quality, operational excellence, and shared learning
• Maintain our rigorous engineering standards and instill consistency across the various codebases and processes you encounter.
• Collaborate with cross-functional working groups (mobile/backend/ML engineers, design,product and operation teams) to design and build frontend experiences.

Your Expertise:

• 7+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role in frontend web
• development
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience
• Strong expertise in the following: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript.
• Experience with modern web technologies such as React, Preact, GraphQL, Angular,Next, Vue or Meteor.
• Awareness of cross-browser compatibility issues and client-side performance considerations
• Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities
• Excellent engineering and coding skills.
• Strong communication skills and experience working closely with other engineering teams across complex interfaces
• Love collaborating via code reviews and architecture discussions, and are motivated to improve their teammates’ productivity
• [Bonus] Experience working on an Infrastructure or Platform team supporting a medium to large engineering organization
• [Bonus] Experience (beyond configuration) working with bundlers, testing frameworks, editor integrations, frontend build/CI systems, observability tooling, or developer environments.
• [Bonus] Show motivation for personal growth and learning new technologies to support the team’s needs