Airbnb is looking to innovate new ways to detect and stop potential risky bookings or identify risk users by collaborating across team boundaries.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience on building systems at scale
- Experience in any of the following: Scala, Java, JavaScript, Python
- 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 with the Spark, Scala and large language models is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Work with large scale back end systems to detect risks, using rules and connecting to productionalized machine learning models.
- Building out tooling and automation for operations to more effectively reduce safety risks.
- Minimize good user impact while developing products to deter bad actors.
- Examples include: build party risk detection mechanism and prevent it from happening, identify and prevent human trafficking cases, building data pipelines for product analysis and machine learning, and reducing safety risk at scale.
Other
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Safety Foundation team, you will be working with data scientists, designers, product managers, product engineers, analytics and customer service operations to innovate new ways we can detect and stop potential risky bookings or identify risk users by collaborating across team boundaries.
- On this team, you must have the curiosity to dig deep into various end to end systems in order to understand how and where the safety risk occurs.
- 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 risk and mitigation.
- 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.
- All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.
