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[Remote] Software Engineer, Trust

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Airbnb is a global platform connecting hosts and guests through stays and experiences. The Software Engineer will join the Listing Integrity team to build scalable systems, tooling, automation, and user challenges that detect and mitigate fraudulent listings and reduce financial losses. The role involves collaborating with data scientists, machine learning engineers, product managers, designers, operations, and other cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

  • Work with large scale back end systems to detect fraudsters, 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 fraud detection and mitigation
  • Building out tooling and automation for operations to more effectively reduce fraud
  • Building user challenges to prevent fraudulent listings while reducing good user impact
  • Examples include: location verification user challenges, automating fraud investigation, improving operations tooling, building data pipelines for machine learning, and reducing fraud at scale

Skills

  • 3+ 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: Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala
  • 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
  • This position is US - Remote Eligible
  • While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
  • Experience with the Trust and Risk domain is a plus

Benefits

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

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.