Senior Trust Platform Engineer – AI-Driven, Scale & Lead

airbnb, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Equity grants

Benefits package

Employee Travel Credits

Job summary

Airbnb is seeking a senior Trust Platform engineer to design, build, and operate scalable backend systems that protect hosts and guests. You will contribute hands-on code while guiding multi-year platform roadmaps, collaborating with product, data science, and operations teams to reduce fraud and improve trust across the marketplace.

You will mentor engineers, champion reliability, and advance AI-assisted development workflows within a complex, distributed architecture at scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of backend & platform engineering designing, building, and operating distributed systems.
• BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience guiding multi-year technical roadmaps and influencing across sub-teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term vision for the Trust Platform architecture.
• Dive deep into platform components, build tooling for throughput and reliability.
• Lead and mentor engineers across teams to raise the technical bar.

Skills

Backend & platform engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Kotlin/Java/Scala

Observability & SLOs

AI-assisted development

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kotlin

Java

Scala

Job description

Airbnb is seeking a senior Trust Platform engineer to design, build, and operate scalable backend systems that protect hosts and guests. You will contribute hands-on code while guiding multi-year platform roadmaps, collaborating with product, data science, and operations teams to reduce fraud and improve trust across the marketplace.

You will mentor engineers, champion reliability, and advance AI-assisted development workflows within a complex, distributed architecture at scale.