Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence

Airbnb

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Remote
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Remote
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$212,000–$265,000 / yr
Posted
28 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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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.

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TL;DR · Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Traffic Intelligence will join the team responsible for distinguishing legitimate automation from abusive actors to protect web and API surfaces. You will architect and maintain end-to-end traffic classification systems, managing the full lifecycle of scoring models from problem framing to real-time deployment at the internet edge. Your daily work involves building offline-to-online data pipelines, creating certified source-of-truth datasets, and optimizing models within strict millisecond latency budgets. You will address adversarial challenges like bot mitigation and fraud by developing robust evaluation frameworks using metrics such as ROC/AUC and precision/recall. The role requires expertise in production ML, warehouse-scale SQL, feature engineering on high-volume streams, and internet edge infrastructure like CDN and HTTP/TLS signatures. You will also serve as a technical authority, translating complex model trade-offs into scalable engineering guidance for cross-functional partners.

What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $229700 from 72 postings across 27 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Manage the full lifecycle of traffic-scoring models from initial problem framing to real-time deployment.
  • Architect offline-to-online data pipelines to produce certified source-of-truth datasets for model evaluation.
  • Optimize machine learning models to meet strict millisecond latency budgets at the internet edge.
  • Develop rigorous evaluation frameworks to ensure model accuracy and resistance against adversarial actors.
  • Integrate scoring intelligence into automated mitigation workflows in coordination with security and infrastructure teams.
  • Serve as a technical authority by communicating complex model trade-offs to leadership and cross-functional partners.
  • Engineer features from high-volume event streams to build reliable, production-ready modeling pipelines.

What we're looking for

  • 9+ years of experience in production ML within non-stationary, adversarial domains like traffic integrity or fraud.
  • Experience architecting scalable offline-to-online data pipelines for low-latency inference systems.
  • Strong foundation in rigorous model evaluation metrics such as ROC/AUC, precision/recall, and calibration.
  • Experience with large-scale data engineering using warehouse-scale SQL and feature engineering on high-volume event streams.
  • Practical knowledge of internet edge infrastructure including CDN, load balancer behavior, and HTTP/TLS signatures.
  • Proven track record of cross-functional leadership and mentoring junior engineers on technical quality.
  • MS or PhD in a quantitative field like Statistics or Machine Learning, or equivalent deep engineering experience.
  • Advanced expertise in graph-based coordination, Sybil detection, causal methods, or Bayesian calibration (preferred).

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