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[Remote] Software Engineer, Secure Development Engineering

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global hospitality and travel platform built on a community of hosts and guests. The Secure Development Engineering team is seeking a software engineer to design, build, and operate reliable backend services and platforms that run code checks in continuous integration. The role also focuses on scaling developer infrastructure, improving developer experience, maintaining data pipelines and dashboards, and supporting AI-assisted code review.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate the backend services that run our code checks inside continuous integration. You own their reliability and their latency
  • Scale the platform to new repositories, new languages, and new check types, and keep the integration simple for the teams that adopt it
  • Build and maintain the data pipelines that store results, and the dashboards that report coverage, volume, and time to fix
  • Design clear APIs and integration points so other engineering teams can plug into the platform without our help
  • Improve the developer experience. Cut noise, write useful messages, and keep the feedback loop short
  • Write tests, add instrumentation, and operate what you build
  • Support our work on AI-assisted code review. Build the evaluation datasets and the pipeline that measures output quality

Skills

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience. You have shipped and maintained production code in at least one of the following languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, JavaScript or TypeScript
  • Experience that you build and operate backend services or platforms that other engineers use
  • Experience with developer infrastructure, such as continuous integration, build systems, or monorepos
  • Comfort with data. You can write SQL, build a pipeline, and put the result on a dashboard
  • Good testing and debugging practice. You measure before you optimize
  • Clear written communication across teams
  • This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from
  • Development of security tooling, static analysis, or dependency scanning
  • Knowledge of web or mobile application security
  • AWS configuration concepts
  • Measurement of output quality from large language models

Benefits

  • This position is US - Remote Eligible.
  • This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, and Employee Travel Credits.

Company Overview

  • Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.airbnb.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Airbnb has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 59 in 2026, 234 in 2025, 176 in 2024, 160 in 2023, 270 in 2022, 250 in 2021, 274 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.