Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust

Airbnb

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$248,000–$310,000 / yr
Posted
173 days ago
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Above market

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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $165,000–$214,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $279k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

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About Airbnb

Founded in 2008 and formerly known as AirBed & Breakfast, Inc., Airbnb is a global marketplace connecting travelers with hosts who offer unique accommodations, ranging from private rooms to entire homes. It operates a massive digital platform for booking stays, experiences, and travel services worldwide.

Airbnb currently has 49 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $206,000–$250,000 across 46 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, Trust, you will join the Trust Engineering team to develop technology protecting the community from fraud and ensuring high standards for hosts and guests. You will define the long-term vision and strategy for the Trust Platform, driving the architectural direction for foundational systems that enable scalable fraud, safety, and trust decisioning. Day-to-day, you will build system and performance tooling, mentor engineers, and champion an AI-first approach using LLM-powered agents. You must possess expertise in backend and platform engineering for mission-critical distributed systems using Kotlin, Java, or Scala. You will solve complex problems regarding identity, reputation, and online or offline fraud, while ensuring high reliability through observability, SLOs, and resilience patterns like circuit breakers and chaos testing.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 367 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and execute the long-term vision and architectural strategy for the Trust Platform.
  • Write production code and contribute to the development of mission-critical distributed systems.
  • Build system and performance tooling to improve technical quality and operational excellence.
  • Implement an AI-first engineering approach using LLM-powered agents for code generation and iteration.
  • Partner with cross-functional leaders to define platform capabilities and tackle evolving fraud threats.
  • Lead and mentor engineers to raise the technical bar across the trust engineering ecosystem.
  • Improve system reliability through observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in backend and platform engineering for mission-critical distributed systems at scale.
  • BS, MS, or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps and aligning long-term platform vision with day-to-day execution.
  • Exceptional communication skills for white-boarding with senior ICs, partnering with cross-functional leads, and presenting to executives.
  • Deep experience building and improving observability, SLOs, incident response, and resilience patterns for mission-critical systems.
  • Hands-on experience with modern languages such as Kotlin, Java, or Scala.
  • Experience building developer experience and tooling (preferred).
  • Experience in the Trust and Risk domain (preferred).

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