Software Engineer, Trust

Airbnb

Software Engineer building backend fraud detection, automation, and user challenges for Airbnb’s global travel marketplace. Collaborating with data science, product, operations, and machine learning teams.

Posted 8/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $162,000 - $186,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building large-scale backend systems and developing high-performance, production-quality code. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance fraud detection and mitigation through innovative tooling and automation.

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Ruby/Ruby On RailsJavaJavaScriptPythonScala

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Hard Skills

High-Performance CodeProduction-Quality CodeData Pipeline DevelopmentFraud DetectionAutomationUser-Facing Product DevelopmentArchitectural PatternsEfficient AlgorithmsLocation-Verification ChallengesFraud Investigation

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationCollaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

MSPhD

Industry Keywords

Trust And Risk DomainFraud MitigationCross-Functional TeamsHigh-Scale Web ApplicationsAPIs

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaJavaScriptPythonRubyRuby on RailsScala

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with large-scale backend systems to detect fraudsters using rules and productionalized machine learning models
Collaborate with machine learning engineers, product managers, operations, and data scientists to identify business-impact opportunities and prioritize fraud detection and mitigation requirements
Build tooling and automation for operations to reduce fraud more effectively
Build user challenges to prevent fraudulent listings while reducing impact on legitimate users
Develop location-verification user challenges
Automate fraud investigations
Improve operations tooling
Build data pipelines for machine learning
Reduce fraud at scale
Investigate end-to-end systems to identify where fraud occurs and projects that reduce fraud losses and protect Airbnb users

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of industry experience building systems at scale
Passion for building user-facing products or large backend systems
Experience with Ruby/Ruby on Rails, Java, JavaScript, Python, or Scala
Ability to write high-performance, production-quality code
Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications, including 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 communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders such as legal and operations
Must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity
Trust and Risk domain experience is a plus
MS or PhD in relevant fields is included as an industry-experience qualification

Benefits

Comp & perks

Bonus eligibility
Equity eligibility
Benefits eligibility
Employee Travel Credits
Remote work arrangement
Occasional Airbnb office work or offsite attendance